Market slice

Data Scientist jobs

11,819 open Data Scientist jobs. Median salary $154k, 13.7% remote, 596 posted this week.

Open roles
11,819
596 new this week
Median salary
$154k
7.6% disclose pay
Remote share
13.7%
of all openings
Median age of posting
42d
40.7% older than 60d
Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted42d median90d+
Age of postingShare
Posted in the last 7 days6.8%
Median age42 days
Older than 60 days40.7%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

$69k$266k
Based on 898 postings that disclose pay — 7.6% of this slice.
Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.
PercentileSalary
25th$121,500
Median$153,500
75th$190,500
90th$233,500
Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top technologies

72.0%
65.8%
59.6%
53.4%
47.2%
41.0%
34.8%
28.6%

Most-asked skills

Communication
58.0%
Budgeting
52.6%
Incident response
47.2%
Stakeholder management
41.8%
Negotiation
36.4%
Roadmapping
31.0%
A/B testing
25.6%
Distributed systems
20.2%
Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote
13.7%
Hybrid
36.2%
In Person
50.1%

Top locations

United States
34.0%
Canada
30.4%
United Kingdom
26.8%
Ireland
23.2%
Germany
19.6%
France
16.0%
Netherlands
12.4%
Spain
8.8%
Employers
3,664
hiring in this slice
Posted last 7d
6.8%
of the cohort
Salary disclosed
7.6%
of postings publish pay
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FAQ

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Which cities hire the most data scientists?

The top locations chart above ranks cities by open postings for this role.

Is data scientist a remote-friendly role?

The remote share tile shows what percentage of current openings are advertised as remote.

Figures cover 11,819 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-01. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →
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