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Data Catalogs: listed in 23 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 16, 2026. It was required in 5 and preferred in 18. The largest group is data engineer roles: 8 of 23.

Required
5 of 23
Of the roles that list Data Catalogs
Preferred
18 of 23
Of the roles that list Data Catalogs
Largest group
8 of 23
Data engineer

Roles that ask for Data Catalogs

Roles listing Data Catalogs, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Data engineer88 of 364
Data analyst44 of 215
Data architect44 of 50
Software engineer33 of 2,466
AI engineer22 of 218
Data scientist11 of 416
Research scientist11 of 122

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Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 23 Data Catalogs roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
SQL
14 of 23
Data Quality
13 of 23
Python
13 of 23
Data Modeling
12 of 23
CI/CD
9 of 23
Data Warehousing
9 of 23
AI
7 of 23
Data Governance
7 of 23
Data Pipelines
7 of 23
AWS
6 of 23
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Metadata Management
7 of 23
Data Governance
6 of 23
Terraform
5 of 23
Data Lineage
4 of 23
Infrastructure as Code
4 of 23
Kubernetes
4 of 23
Python
4 of 23
Stream Processing
4 of 23
AI
3 of 23
Airflow
3 of 23

Experience

Asked most often: 8–9 years, 7 of 20.

Of the 20 roles that state years

Under 3 years
0 of 20
3–4 years
6 of 20
5–7 years
6 of 20
8–9 years
7 of 20
10+ years
1 of 20

Degree

3 of 23 require a degree, and 1 more accepts experience instead.

Of the 23 roles we could read for it

Required
3 of 23
Required, or experience instead
1 of 23
Preferred
1 of 23
Not mentioned
18 of 23

Pay and remote work

Of the 23 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
15 of 23
Remote roles
17 of 23

How we count: 23 roles from 20 employers in the 90 days to Oct 16, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology