Data Platform Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-03, Skillenai has indexed 277 job postings with the title “Data Platform Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Python, with demand up 24% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-03
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+How many Data Platform Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 277 job postings with the title “Data Platform Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-03, with demand up 24% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Data Platform Engineer jobs require?
Across Data Platform Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-03, the skills mentioned most often are Python, SQL, CI/CD, Terraform, Kafka.
+Which cities are hiring the most Data Platform Engineer?
As of 2026-09-03, Data Platform Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in New York City, Amsterdam, Boston, San Diego, Bengaluru.
+Is Data Platform Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 277 Data Platform Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-03, with demand up 24% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Data Platform Engineer postings is Python, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Data Platform Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Data Platform Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 146 | 52.7% |
| SQL | 93 | 33.6% |
| CI/CD | 80 | 28.9% |
| Terraform | 79 | 28.5% |
| Kafka | 71 | 25.6% |
| Snowflake | 63 | 22.7% |
| Kubernetes | 62 | 22.4% |
| AWS | 62 | 22.4% |
| DBT | 54 | 19.5% |
| data modeling | 52 | 18.8% |
| Airflow | 49 | 17.7% |
| Databricks | 48 | 17.3% |
| observability | 46 | 16.6% |
| Java | 42 | 15.2% |
| Spark | 40 | 14.4% |
Top metros hiring Data Platform Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 12 | 4.3% |
| Amsterdam | 10 | 3.6% |
| Boston | 8 | 2.9% |
| San Diego | 7 | 2.5% |
| Bengaluru | 6 | 2.2% |
| Toronto | 6 | 2.2% |
| San Francisco | 4 | 1.4% |
| Atlanta | 3 | 1.1% |
| Barcelona | 3 | 1.1% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-03, matching postings whose canonical role is “Data Platform Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Data Platform Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-09-03
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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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