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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

data analysis

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 622 postings naming data analysis that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Analyst31.5%
  2. 2Data Scientist28.5%
  3. 3Software Engineer28%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.4%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer3.4%
  6. 6Data Engineer2.4%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.1%
  8. 8Security Engineer1%

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 = 326
10th
$97k
25th
$135k
Median
$170k
75th
$220k
90th
$260k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY13%
  2. 2Remote9.2%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.8%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.2%
  5. 5Washington, DC6.1%
  6. 6Chicago, IL2.7%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.6%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.1%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.