Analytics Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-05-23, Skillenai has indexed 586 job postings with the title “Analytics Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is SQL, with demand down 51% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-23
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+How many Analytics Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 586 job postings with the title “Analytics Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-05-23, with demand down 51% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Analytics Engineer jobs require?
Across Analytics Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-23, the skills mentioned most often are SQL, data modeling, DBT, Python, Snowflake.
+Which cities are hiring the most Analytics Engineer?
As of 2026-05-23, Analytics Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in London, New York City, San Francisco, Barcelona, Paris.
+Is Analytics Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 586 Analytics Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-05-23, with demand down 51% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Analytics Engineer postings is SQL, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Analytics Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Analytics Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| SQL | 463 | 14.9% |
| data modeling | 358 | 11.6% |
| DBT | 337 | 10.9% |
| Python | 307 | 9.9% |
| Snowflake | 216 | 7.0% |
| data pipelines | 206 | 6.6% |
| Looker | 170 | 5.5% |
| Tableau | 150 | 4.8% |
| data quality | 146 | 4.7% |
| Airflow | 146 | 4.7% |
| ETL | 137 | 4.4% |
| data governance | 122 | 3.9% |
| ELT | 120 | 3.9% |
| BigQuery | 118 | 3.8% |
| CI/CD | 102 | 3.3% |
Top metros hiring Analytics Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| London | 50 | 26.0% |
| New York City | 39 | 20.3% |
| San Francisco | 35 | 18.2% |
| Barcelona | 14 | 7.3% |
| Paris | 12 | 6.3% |
| Berlin | 11 | 5.7% |
| São Paulo | 11 | 5.7% |
| Toronto | 11 | 5.7% |
| Austin | 9 | 4.7% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-23, matching postings whose canonical role is “Analytics Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Analytics Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-05-23
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- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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