Writing a data scientist resume

Everything below is counted from 2,034 live data scientist postings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 2,034
Employers: 845
Remote: 18%
Typical pay: $105k–236k
Verified live (7d): 1,930

What they ask for

Counted across 1,452 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python93%
Large Language Models32%
Amazon Web Services30%
Microsoft Azure20%
Natural Language Processing19%
PyTorch19%
Google Cloud Platform17%
Databricks15%
pandas14%
Tableau14%
TensorFlow13%
Microsoft Power BI12%
Snowflake10%
NumPy9%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Booz Allen Hamilton_United States74
RELX Inc. Company39
Launch Potato36
Amgen Mexico S.A. de C.V.34
Micron Memory Japan, K.K.27
capitalone.wd12.capital_one27
Refinitiv Poland Spółka z o.o.21
NielsenIQ20
GRVTY20
HOME DEPOT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC20
LEIDOS, INC.19
Grab16

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