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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

data modeling

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 602 postings naming data modeling that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer40%
  2. 2Software Engineer29.1%
  3. 3Data Analyst11.5%
  4. 4Data Scientist8.1%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.8%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer2.8%
  7. 7Backend Engineer2.5%
  8. 8DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.2%

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 modeling is named
n = 75
10th
$115k
25th
$145k
Median
$175k
75th
$224k
90th
$270k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY18.8%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA17.9%
  3. 3Remote16.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.8%
  5. 5Boston, MA2.8%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.7%
  7. 7Austin, TX1.7%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.5%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.