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Data as of November 2, 2026

Data science

SQL is in 90% of these roles, vs. 19% across tech.

The skills employers mention most in open data science roles, and how each compares with tech as a whole.

Open roles
72
Companies hiring
19
New in the last 7 days
6
Listed as remote
At least 22%

What sets this apart

  1. +71 SQL 90% here, 19% overall
  2. +41 Python 92% here, 51% overall
  3. +29 R 31% here, 2% overall
  4. +16 A/B testing 18% here, 2% overall

Percentage points above the share of all tech roles.

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Share of open data science roles and of companies mentioning each skill
Skill % of roles % of companies
Python 66 of 72 roles · 18 of 19 companies · 51% across all tech roles 92%+41 pts 95%
SQL 65 of 72 roles · 17 of 19 companies · 19% across all tech roles 90%+71 pts 90%
R 22 of 72 roles · 8 of 19 companies · 2% across all tech roles 31%+29 pts 42%
Spark 16 of 72 roles · 7 of 19 companies · 9% across all tech roles 22% 37%
A/B testing 13 of 72 roles · 7 of 19 companies · 2% across all tech roles 18%+16 pts 37%
LLMs 9 of 72 roles · 7 of 19 companies · 19% across all tech roles 12% 37%
BigQuery 6 of 72 roles · 5 of 19 companies · 2% across all tech roles 8% 26%
Airflow 5 of 72 roles · 2 of 19 companies · 3% across all tech roles 7% 10%
Go 5 of 72 roles · 3 of 19 companies · 27% across all tech roles 7% 16%
Looker 5 of 72 roles · 4 of 19 companies · 1% across all tech roles 7% 21%
Snowflake 5 of 72 roles · 4 of 19 companies · 4% across all tech roles 7% 21%
dbt 5 of 72 roles · 4 of 19 companies · 3% across all tech roles 7% 21%
Data modeling 4 of 72 roles · 2 of 19 companies · 4% across all tech roles 6% 10%
Hadoop 4 of 72 roles · 3 of 19 companies · 2% across all tech roles 6% 16%
Redshift 4 of 72 roles · 3 of 19 companies · 1% across all tech roles 6% 16%
Tableau 4 of 72 roles · 4 of 19 companies · 1% across all tech roles 6% 21%
scikit-learn 4 of 72 roles · 4 of 19 companies · 1% across all tech roles 6% 21%
ETL/ELT 3 of 72 roles · 2 of 19 companies · 4% across all tech roles 4% 10%
PyTorch 3 of 72 roles · 2 of 19 companies · 6% across all tech roles 4% 10%
AWS 2 of 72 roles · 2 of 19 companies · 27% across all tech roles 3% 10%
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SkillCategoryRoles% of rolesCompanies% of companies
PythonLanguages6691.7%1895%
SQLLanguages6590.3%1790%
RLanguages2230.6%842%
SparkData1622.2%737%
A/B testingAnalytics1318.1%737%
LLMsAI/ML912.5%737%
BigQueryData68.3%526%
AirflowData56.9%210%
GoLanguages56.9%316%
LookerAnalytics56.9%421%
SnowflakeData56.9%421%
dbtData56.9%421%
Data modelingData45.6%210%
HadoopData45.6%316%
RedshiftData45.6%316%
TableauAnalytics45.6%421%
scikit-learnAI/ML45.6%421%
ETL/ELTData34.2%210%
PyTorchAI/ML34.2%210%
AWSCloud22.8%210%
CI/CDInfrastructure22.8%210%
FivetranData22.8%15%
GCPCloud22.8%210%
LangChainAI/ML22.8%210%
MLflowAI/ML22.8%210%
NumPyData22.8%210%
PandasData22.8%210%
ScalaLanguages22.8%15%
TensorFlowAI/ML22.8%210%
AzureCloud11.4%15%
C++Languages11.4%15%
Hugging FaceAI/ML11.4%15%
MATLABLanguages11.4%15%
ReactWeb11.4%15%
Threat modelingSecurity11.4%15%
TypeScriptLanguages11.4%15%

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