Which roles ask for Data Pipelines at tech companies · 136 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
136 roles counted that list Data Pipelines, one per company, title and level; 433 postings in the window.
In short
Data Pipelines: listed in 136 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 89 and preferred in 47. The largest group is data engineer roles: 40 of 136 (29%).
- Required
- 89 of 136 (65%)
- Of the roles that list Data Pipelines
- Preferred
- 47 of 136 (35%)
- Of the roles that list Data Pipelines
- Largest group
- 40 of 136 (29%)
- Data engineer
Roles that ask for Data Pipelines
Roles listing Data Pipelines, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Data engineer | 40 | 40 of 99 (40%) |
| Software engineer | 38 | 38 of 719 (5%) |
| Data scientist | 14 | 14 of 112 (13%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 13 | 13 of 79 (16%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 8 | 8 of 63 (13%) |
| Research scientist | 6 | 6 of 39 |
| Security engineer | 5 | 5 of 126 (4%) |
| Analytics engineer | 4 | 4 of 28 |
| Data analyst | 3 | 3 of 47 |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 (3%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Databricks7 roles
- Stripe6 roles
- Anthropic5 roles
- George Bernard Consulting4 roles
- Socure4 roles
- SpaceXAI4 roles
- Airbnb3 roles
- Cursor3 roles
- Netflix3 roles
- Scale AI3 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 136 Data Pipelines roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 92 of 136 (68%) |
| SQL | 60 of 136 (44%) |
| AWS | 41 of 136 (30%) |
| Data Modeling | 32 of 136 (24%) |
| CI/CD | 31 of 136 (23%) |
| Machine Learning | 29 of 136 (21%) |
| Azure | 28 of 136 (21%) |
| Distributed Systems | 27 of 136 (20%) |
| Data Warehousing | 25 of 136 (18%) |
| Spark | 25 of 136 (18%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 19 of 136 (14%) |
| AWS | 18 of 136 (13%) |
| LLMs | 18 of 136 (13%) |
| AI | 15 of 136 (11%) |
| Databricks | 14 of 136 (10%) |
| GCP | 14 of 136 (10%) |
| Spark | 14 of 136 (10%) |
| Azure | 13 of 136 (10%) |
| Data Infrastructure | 12 of 136 (9%) |
| Kubernetes | 12 of 136 (9%) |
Experience
Of the 71 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 71 of 71 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 69 of 71 (97%)
- 3+ years
- 62 of 71 (87%)
- 5+ years
- 50 of 71 (70%)
- 8+ years
- 13 of 71 (18%)
- 10+ years
- 6 of 71 (8%)
Degree
Of the 99 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 11 of 99 (11%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 18 of 99 (18%)
- Preferred
- 3 of 99 (3%)
- Not mentioned
- 67 of 99 (68%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 136 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $184.8k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 60 of 136 (44%)
- Remote roles
- 80 of 136 (59%)
How we count: 136 roles from 94 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