Senior Data Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-05, Skillenai has indexed 35 job postings with the title “Senior Data Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is SQL.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-05
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+How many Senior Data Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 35 job postings with the title “Senior Data Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-05.
+What skills do Senior Data Engineer jobs require?
Across Senior Data Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-05, the skills mentioned most often are SQL, Python, CI/CD, ETL, PySpark.
+Which cities are hiring the most Senior Data Engineer?
As of 2026-09-05, Senior Data Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Baltimore, Barcelona, Berlin, Bogotá, Bristol.
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Skillenai indexes 35 Senior Data Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-05. The skill mentioned most often in Senior Data Engineer postings is SQL, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Senior Data Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Senior Data Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| SQL | 25 | 71.4% |
| Python | 21 | 60.0% |
| CI/CD | 15 | 42.9% |
| ETL | 14 | 40.0% |
| PySpark | 12 | 34.3% |
| data modeling | 11 | 31.4% |
| AWS | 11 | 31.4% |
| data governance | 11 | 31.4% |
| Power BI | 10 | 28.6% |
| data pipelines | 10 | 28.6% |
| Databricks | 10 | 28.6% |
| Apache Spark | 9 | 25.7% |
| Spark | 8 | 22.9% |
| Azure | 8 | 22.9% |
| Snowflake | 8 | 22.9% |
Top metros hiring Senior Data Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | 1 | 2.9% |
| Barcelona | 1 | 2.9% |
| Berlin | 1 | 2.9% |
| Bogotá | 1 | 2.9% |
| Bristol | 1 | 2.9% |
| Budapest | 1 | 2.9% |
| Detroit | 1 | 2.9% |
| Hyderabad | 1 | 2.9% |
| Irving | 1 | 2.9% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-05, matching postings whose canonical role is “Senior Data Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Senior Data Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-09-05
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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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