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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

data modeling

1,144 live US technical postings name data modeling 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 1,144 postings naming data modeling that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer35.8%
  2. 2Software Engineer34.7%
  3. 3Data Analyst10.2%
  4. 4Data Scientist8%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer4.5%
  6. 6AI Engineer2.1%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.1%
  8. 8Backend Engineer1.8%

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 modeling is named
n = 633
10th
$128k
25th
$150k
Median
$183k
75th
$216k
90th
$244k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA18%
  2. 2New York, NY14.9%
  3. 3Remote13.5%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.5%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.8%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.1%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.2%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.9%

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.