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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

data analysis

606 live US technical postings name data analysis in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 606 postings naming data analysis that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Analyst30.7%
  2. 2Data Scientist29.4%
  3. 3Software Engineer28.4%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer3.6%
  5. 5AI Engineer3.1%
  6. 6Data Engineer2.3%

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 analysis is named
n = 296
10th
$102k
25th
$140k
Median
$175k
75th
$222k
90th
$268k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY13.5%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA9.9%
  3. 3Remote8.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.6%
  6. 6Chicago, IL3.3%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.5%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.5%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.