Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Data Analyst: $126K median posted pay.
From 168 salary bands employers posted on 437 open data analyst roles in data & science. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 147 | $133K | — |
| Principal | 14 | $141K | — |
| Staff | 14 | $183K | — |
| Intern | 10 | — (3 of 8 bands) | — |
| Mid | 9 | — (6 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Capital One | 18 | — |
| Bah | 11 | — |
| RELX | 11 | — |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | 11 | — |
| Air Apps | 10 | — |
| Guidehouse | 9 | — |
| Tripledot Studios | 8 | — |
| Stripe | 7 | — |
| Homedepot | 6 | — |
| Truelogic | 6 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open data analyst roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Data Analysis | 434 | — |
| SQL | 345 | — |
| Python | 276 | — |
| Dashboard Building | 256 | — |
| Data Cleaning | 180 | — |
| Data Pipelines | 163 | — |
| Data Visualization | 162 | — |
| Statistics | 156 | — |
| R | 155 | — |
| Business Intelligence | 129 | — |
Where the work is
15% of these roles are remote.
- Remote15%67 roles
- Hybrid8%36 roles
- On site60%264 roles
- Not stated16%70 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 437 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 168 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Data Analyst (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in data & science, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.