Data Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-08-30, Skillenai has indexed 375 job postings with the title “Data Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Python, with demand up 204% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-08-30
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+How many Data Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 375 job postings with the title “Data Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30, with demand up 204% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Data Engineer jobs require?
Across Data Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30, the skills mentioned most often are Python, SQL, ETL, AWS, Snowflake.
+Which cities are hiring the most Data Engineer?
As of 2026-08-30, Data Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in New York City, San Francisco, Madrid, Arlington, London.
+Is Data Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 375 Data Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30, with demand up 204% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Data Engineer postings is Python, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Data Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Data Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 256 | 68.3% |
| SQL | 239 | 63.7% |
| ETL | 165 | 44.0% |
| AWS | 133 | 35.5% |
| Snowflake | 97 | 25.9% |
| data modeling | 95 | 25.3% |
| dbt | 91 | 24.3% |
| ELT | 89 | 23.7% |
| Databricks | 89 | 23.7% |
| Airflow | 87 | 23.2% |
| data pipelines | 86 | 22.9% |
| CI/CD | 79 | 21.1% |
| Spark | 78 | 20.8% |
| data governance | 66 | 17.6% |
| Azure | 64 | 17.1% |
Top metros hiring Data Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 13 | 3.5% |
| San Francisco | 13 | 3.5% |
| Madrid | 11 | 2.9% |
| Arlington | 10 | 2.7% |
| London | 8 | 2.1% |
| João Lisboa | 7 | 1.9% |
| Paris | 7 | 1.9% |
| Levallois-Perret | 6 | 1.6% |
| Singapore | 6 | 1.6% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30, matching postings whose canonical role is “Data Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Data Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-08-30
- window_days
- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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