Data & AI Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-17, Skillenai has indexed 28 job postings with the title “Data & AI Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Python, with demand down 47% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-17
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+How many Data & AI Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 28 job postings with the title “Data & AI Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-17, with demand down 47% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Data & AI Engineer jobs require?
Across Data & AI Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-17, the skills mentioned most often are Python, SQL, data pipelines, CI/CD, AWS.
+Which cities are hiring the most Data & AI Engineer?
As of 2026-09-17, Data & AI Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Luxembourg, Puteaux, Barcelona, Bengaluru, Charlotte.
+Is Data & AI Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 28 Data & AI Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-17, with demand down 47% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Data & AI Engineer postings is Python, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Data & AI Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Data & AI Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 17 | 60.7% |
| SQL | 11 | 39.3% |
| data pipelines | 8 | 28.6% |
| CI/CD | 7 | 25.0% |
| AWS | 6 | 21.4% |
| Docker | 5 | 17.9% |
| Azure | 5 | 17.9% |
| machine learning | 5 | 17.9% |
| Snowflake | 5 | 17.9% |
| ETL | 4 | 14.3% |
| Terraform | 4 | 14.3% |
| Data engineering | 4 | 14.3% |
| Spark | 3 | 10.7% |
| vector databases | 3 | 10.7% |
| ELT | 3 | 10.7% |
Top metros hiring Data & AI Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg | 3 | 10.7% |
| Puteaux | 3 | 10.7% |
| Barcelona | 1 | 3.6% |
| Bengaluru | 1 | 3.6% |
| Charlotte | 1 | 3.6% |
| Dubai | 1 | 3.6% |
| Herzliya | 1 | 3.6% |
| Little Rock | 1 | 3.6% |
| Lu-uk | 1 | 3.6% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-17, matching postings whose canonical role is “Data & AI Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Data & AI Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-17
- window_days
- 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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