Which roles ask for Statistics at tech companies · 115 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
115 roles counted that list Statistics, one per company, title and level; 190 postings in the window.
In short
Statistics: listed in 115 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 95 and preferred in 20. The largest group is data scientist roles: 65 of 115 (57%).
- Required
- 95 of 115 (83%)
- Of the roles that list Statistics
- Preferred
- 20 of 115 (17%)
- Of the roles that list Statistics
- Largest group
- 65 of 115 (57%)
- Data scientist
Roles that ask for Statistics
Roles listing Statistics, 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 scientist | 65 | 65 of 112 (58%) |
| Data analyst | 16 | 16 of 47 |
| Machine learning engineer | 12 | 12 of 79 (15%) |
| Software engineer | 6 | 6 of 719 (1%) |
| Data engineer | 5 | 5 of 99 (5%) |
| Research scientist | 5 | 5 of 39 |
| AI engineer | 3 | 3 of 70 (4%) |
| Analytics engineer | 2 | 2 of 28 |
| Data architect | 1 | 1 of 11 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Stripe7 roles
- Cloudflare5 roles
- George Bernard Consulting5 roles
- Airbnb4 roles
- Datadog3 roles
- Figma3 roles
- OpenAI3 roles
- Socure3 roles
- Spotify3 roles
- Jobskey Consultancy2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 115 Statistics roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 86 of 115 (75%) |
| SQL | 71 of 115 (62%) |
| Machine Learning | 62 of 115 (54%) |
| Experimentation | 31 of 115 (27%) |
| R | 29 of 115 (25%) |
| Data Visualization | 22 of 115 (19%) |
| AI | 21 of 115 (18%) |
| PyTorch | 21 of 115 (18%) |
| scikit-learn | 21 of 115 (18%) |
| Pandas | 19 of 115 (17%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| LLMs | 16 of 115 (14%) |
| Azure | 10 of 115 (9%) |
| AWS | 9 of 115 (8%) |
| Spark | 9 of 115 (8%) |
| AI Agents | 8 of 115 (7%) |
| Data Visualization | 8 of 115 (7%) |
| Machine Learning | 8 of 115 (7%) |
| NLP | 8 of 115 (7%) |
| Causal Inference | 7 of 115 (6%) |
| Data Pipelines | 7 of 115 (6%) |
Experience
Of the 59 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 59 of 59 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 57 of 59 (97%)
- 3+ years
- 52 of 59 (88%)
- 5+ years
- 31 of 59 (53%)
- 8+ years
- 13 of 59 (22%)
- 10+ years
- 7 of 59 (12%)
Degree
Of the 87 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 25 of 87 (29%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 29 of 87 (33%)
- Preferred
- 11 of 87 (13%)
- Not mentioned
- 22 of 87 (25%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 115 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 49 of 115 (43%)
- Remote roles
- 69 of 115 (60%)
How we count: 115 roles from 84 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