What Lead Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 811 open Lead Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cloud, ai, python.
Updated October 28, 2026
816 open Lead Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 811 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cloud | 65% |
| ai | 61% |
| python | 59% |
| data-engineering | 58% |
| analytics | 57% |
| sql | 53% |
| data-quality | 47% |
| data-governance | 43% |
| ci-cd | 43% |
| data-pipelines | 42% |
| aws | 41% |
| automation | 38% |
| agile | 38% |
| databricks | 34% |
| spark | 33% |
| machine-learning | 32% |
| snowflake | 27% |
| data-modeling | 27% |
| observability | 26% |
| azure | 25% |
| etl | 25% |
| airflow | 23% |
| api | 22% |
| java | 21% |
| cloud-native | 21% |
| kafka | 20% |
| test-automation | 19% |
| lakehouse | 19% |
| root-cause-analysis | 19% |
| gcp | 19% |
| pyspark | 18% |
| elt | 17% |
| dbt | 17% |
| llm | 16% |
| data-warehousing | 15% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 15% |
| big-data | 15% |
| data-science | 14% |
| terraform | 14% |
| git | 14% |
"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