Which roles ask for Data Modeling at tech companies · 185 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
185 roles counted that list Data Modeling, one per company, title and level; 343 postings in the window.
In short
Data Modeling: listed in 185 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 155 and preferred in 30. The largest group is software engineer roles: 66 of 185 (36%).
- Required
- 155 of 185 (84%)
- Of the roles that list Data Modeling
- Preferred
- 30 of 185 (16%)
- Of the roles that list Data Modeling
- Largest group
- 66 of 185 (36%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Data Modeling
Roles listing Data Modeling, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 66 | 66 of 719 (9%) |
| Data engineer | 57 | 57 of 99 (58%) |
| Analytics engineer | 18 | 18 of 28 |
| Data scientist | 14 | 14 of 112 (13%) |
| Data analyst | 11 | 11 of 47 |
| Data architect | 10 | 10 of 11 |
| Forward deployed engineer | 3 | 3 of 63 (5%) |
| AI engineer | 1 | 1 of 70 (1%) |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 1 | 1 of 79 (1%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Scale AI5 roles
- mercor5 roles
- Airbnb4 roles
- CoreWeave4 roles
- Anthropic3 roles
- Coalition, Inc.3 roles
- General Dynamics Information Technology3 roles
- Okta3 roles
- OpenAI3 roles
- Replit3 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 185 Data Modeling roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| SQL | 99 of 185 (54%) |
| Python | 92 of 185 (50%) |
| CI/CD | 43 of 185 (23%) |
| Data Warehousing | 42 of 185 (23%) |
| AWS | 39 of 185 (21%) |
| Git | 39 of 185 (21%) |
| Snowflake | 34 of 185 (18%) |
| AI | 30 of 185 (16%) |
| ETL | 30 of 185 (16%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| AWS | 24 of 185 (13%) |
| CI/CD | 23 of 185 (12%) |
| GCP | 20 of 185 (11%) |
| Kafka | 20 of 185 (11%) |
| Kubernetes | 20 of 185 (11%) |
| Azure | 18 of 185 (10%) |
| Data Pipelines | 17 of 185 (9%) |
| Machine Learning | 17 of 185 (9%) |
| Python | 17 of 185 (9%) |
| Stream Processing | 17 of 185 (9%) |
Experience
Of the 106 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 106 of 106 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 106 of 106 (100%)
- 3+ years
- 99 of 106 (93%)
- 5+ years
- 76 of 106 (72%)
- 8+ years
- 21 of 106 (20%)
- 10+ years
- 6 of 106 (6%)
Degree
Of the 131 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 15 of 131 (11%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 26 of 131 (20%)
- Preferred
- 3 of 131 (2%)
- Not mentioned
- 87 of 131 (66%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 185 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $165k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 93 of 185 (50%)
- Remote roles
- 130 of 185 (70%)
How we count: 185 roles from 144 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 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