data products jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-09-30, data products appears in 440 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Product Manager has the most postings mentioning data products, with demand share up 2.8% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30

Postings · last 90 days
440
Demand vs prior month
up 2.8% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top role · 19.5% of skill postings
Top hiring metro
New York City

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Frequently asked questions about data products

+Is data products in demand in 2026?

Yes. data products appears in 440 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Product Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning data products (19.5% of all postings mentioning data products).

+What jobs require data products?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning data products are Product Data Scientist (15.9% of that role’s postings mention data products), Decision Scientist (9.3% of that role’s postings mention data products), Data & AI Engineer (6.9% of that role’s postings mention data products).

+What skills are commonly paired with data products?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), data products most often appears alongside SQL, Python, data governance, data quality, data modeling.

+Where is data products most in demand?

As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring data products are New York City, London, Bengaluru, San Francisco, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

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+Which skills come before and after data products?

The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.

Weekly indexed postings requiring data products — last 90 days

Salary distribution

Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized

Career paths around data products

Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.

Historical career profiles · all locations

Skills before data products

Before data productsGrowth → data products: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairNLP → data products: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairBI platform → data products: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairETL → data products: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairautomation → data products: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairanalytics training → data products: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairensembles of supervised learning machines → data products: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairHIE data integration → data products: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata productsGrowth: 1 movesGrowth1 movesNLP: 1 movesNLP1 movesBI platform: 1 movesBI platform1 movesETL: 1 movesETL1 movesautomation: 1 movesautomation1 movesanalytics training: 1 movesanalytics training1 movesensembles of supervised learning machines: 1 movesensembles ofsupervisedlearning machines1 movesHIE data integration: 1 movesHIE dataintegration1 moves

Skills after data products

After data productsdata products → data cleaning: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata products → python: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata products → Power BI: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata products → Data ingestion: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata products → cybersecurity Action Plan: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata products → web portal: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata products → Workbench: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata products → infrastructure as code: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairdata productsdata cleaning: 2 movesdata cleaning2 movespython: 2 movespython2 movesPower BI: 2 movesPower BI2 movesData ingestion: 1 movesData ingestion1 movescybersecurity Action Plan: 1 movescybersecurityAction Plan1 movesweb portal: 1 movesweb portal1 movesWorkbench: 1 movesWorkbench1 movesinfrastructure as code: 1 movesinfrastructure ascode1 moves
How to read this chart · view counts

Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.

The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.

Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.

Observed connections and move counts
ConnectionMoves
Before: Growth1
Before: NLP1
Before: BI platform1
Before: ETL1
Before: automation1
Before: analytics training1
Before: ensembles of supervised learning machines1
Before: HIE data integration1
After: data cleaning2
After: python2
After: Power BI2
After: Data ingestion1
After: cybersecurity Action Plan1
After: web portal1
After: Workbench1
After: infrastructure as code1

Roles most likely to require data products

Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.

RolePostings mentioning skill% of role postings mentioning skill
Product Data Scientist1015.9%
Decision Scientist49.3%
Data & AI Engineer26.9%
Data Product Manager55.7%
Analytics Engineering Director15.0%
Platform Product Manager15.0%
Data Engineering Manager114.7%
Applied Data Scientist24.7%
Data Analytics Director14.2%
AI Product Manager84.1%

Roles with the most data products postings

RolePostings mentioning skillShare of skill postings
Product Manager8619.5%
Data Scientist347.7%
Data Engineer225.0%
Data Analyst204.5%
Data Architect143.2%
Data Engineering Manager112.5%
Product Data Scientist102.3%
Product Data Science Manager92.0%
AI Product Manager81.8%
AI Strategy Manager81.8%

Top companies posting jobs requiring data products

Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.

Top companies posting jobs requiring data products
CompanyPostings · 90 days
Tripadvisor17
Accenture17
Stripe9
Wavestone8
Scale AI7
JPMorgan Chase & Co.7
Capital One6
Elsevier5
Housetrip5
JJ5

Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.

Top metros hiring for data products

NamePostingsShare
New York City296.6%
London173.9%
Bengaluru143.2%
San Francisco122.7%
Toronto102.3%
Puteaux81.8%
Amsterdam61.4%
Austin61.4%
Barcelona51.1%

Skills commonly paired with data products

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How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning data products by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s data products postings by all data products postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.2% to 0.2%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,595 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.

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Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index