Which data skills get you hired, and paid?
Skill demand and salaries from – data and AI job postings in the last 12 months. Pick a role, country and period to see what employers ask for.
Source: datanerd.tech · export of 2 Nov 2026Top skills
Share of postings that mention each skill, with the median yearly salary where postings list one.
Rising and cooling
How much more or less often each skill is mentioned in the last 30 days than over the last 12 months, compared with all skill mentions. Skills in at least 3% of postings (0.5% within one skill type).
Demand vs salary
Skills toward the top right are both in demand and well paid. Shows skills in at least 2% of postings that have salary data.
About the data
The numbers come from datanerd.tech by Luke Barousse, which tracks data and AI job postings from Google Jobs and extracts the skills each posting asks for. This page covers ten data and AI roles in 80 countries, across all job types.
A skill's share is the number of postings that mention it divided by all postings for the selection. Combinations with fewer than five postings are left out of the source, so small countries can show slightly lower shares. Salaries are medians in US dollars per year; when you combine countries, they are weighted by the number of postings with a salary.