What Senior Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 25 open Senior Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cloud, python, ai.
Updated October 18, 2026
25 open Senior Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 25 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cloud | 80% |
| python | 76% |
| ai | 68% |
| sql | 64% |
| analytics | 60% |
| data-engineering | 60% |
| aws | 44% |
| ci-cd | 44% |
| data-pipelines | 44% |
| observability | 44% |
| data-modeling | 40% |
| snowflake | 40% |
| databricks | 36% |
| data-quality | 36% |
| airflow | 32% |
| azure | 32% |
| automation | 28% |
| bigquery | 28% |
| etl | 28% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 28% |
| kafka | 28% |
| kubernetes | 28% |
| machine-learning | 28% |
| postgresql | 28% |
| api | 24% |
| dagster | 24% |
| dbt | 24% |
| devops | 24% |
| gcp | 24% |
| git | 24% |
| data-governance | 20% |
| data-science | 20% |
| data-warehousing | 20% |
| elt | 20% |
| github | 20% |
| s3 | 20% |
| terraform | 20% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Data Engineering levels
Most Data Engineering postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- python 56
- analytics 51
- ai 50
- sql 50
- cloud 49
- data-engineering 46
- ci-cd 34
- data-pipelines 32
- azure 29
- data-quality 27
- databricks 27
- etl 27