What C-level Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 164 open C-level Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are analytics, ai, data-quality.
Updated October 28, 2026
165 open C-level Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 164 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| analytics | 78% |
| ai | 66% |
| data-quality | 53% |
| data-governance | 48% |
| data-engineering | 46% |
| machine-learning | 43% |
| cloud | 42% |
| sql | 38% |
| databricks | 34% |
| automation | 30% |
| data-pipelines | 29% |
| python | 29% |
| stakeholder-management | 28% |
| ci-cd | 25% |
| data-modeling | 25% |
| snowflake | 25% |
| aws | 20% |
| spark | 20% |
| data-science | 20% |
| observability | 20% |
| dbt | 18% |
| lakehouse | 17% |
| kafka | 16% |
| airflow | 15% |
| metadata-management | 15% |
| api | 14% |
| etl | 14% |
| azure | 13% |
| agile | 13% |
| cloud-native | 12% |
| elt | 12% |
| gcp | 12% |
| gdpr | 12% |
| data-ingestion | 11% |
| llm | 11% |
| ai-enablement | 10% |
| data-lineage | 10% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 10% |
| java | 10% |
| data-lake | 10% |
"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.
- sql 6,613
- python 6,359
- cloud 5,938
- data-engineering 5,477
- analytics 5,027
- ai 4,969
- data-pipelines 4,358
- data-quality 3,986
- etl 3,910
- aws 3,820
- ci-cd 3,572
- azure 3,568