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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

data analysis

433 live US technical postings name data analysis in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 433 postings naming data analysis that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer30.7%
  2. 2Data Scientist29.6%
  3. 3Data Analyst28.6%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer3.2%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.1%
  6. 6Security Engineer1.8%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.6%
  8. 8DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.4%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where data analysis is named
n = 56
10th
$110k
25th
$130k
Median
$173k
75th
$204k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote13.9%
  2. 2New York, NY10.9%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.2%
  5. 5Chicago, IL3.2%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.8%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.3%
  8. 8Washington, DC2.3%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.