Data Engineer Resume Keywords

Top 20 skills in data engineer job postings

1. 1

   SQL
   59% of postings49% as required
2. 2

   Python
   58% of postings45% as required
3. 3

   Spark
   28% of postings21% as required
4. 4

   Snowflake
   25% of postings20% as required
5. 5

   Databricks
   24% of postings17% as required
6. 6

   dbt
   22% of postings17% as required
7. 7

   AWS
   20% of postings16% as required
8. 8

   Data modeling
   20% of postings17% as required
9. 9

   Airflow
   19% of postings15% as required
10. 10

    CI/CD
    17% of postings13% as required
11. 11

    Azure
    11% of postings9% as required
12. 12

    Data engineering
    11% of postings9% as required
13. 13

    GCP
    10% of postings8% as required
14. 14

    BigQuery
    10% of postings8% as required
15. 15

    Git
    9% of postings8% as required
16. 16

    Data governance
    9% of postings8% as required
17. 17

    Kafka
    8% of postings6% as required
18. 18

    Java
    8% of postings7% as required
19. 19

    Terraform
    8% of postings6% as required
20. 20

    Delta Lake
    7% of postings5% as required

Source: public postings from employer career sites collected by LetMeApply. Skills are read from each posting with AI and merged across spellings (for example, AWS and Amazon Web Services). Each employer counts at most 3 times, so one company hiring in bulk does not skew the list.