Writing a data scientist resume

Everything below is counted from 1,168 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: 1,168
Employers: 565
Remote: 18%
Typical pay: $111k–255k
Verified live (7d): 1,055

What they ask for

Counted across 1,126 of the most recent 1,168 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python91%
Large Language Models29%
Amazon Web Services25%
PyTorch19%
Natural Language Processing19%
Microsoft Azure17%
Google Cloud Platform16%
Databricks15%
TensorFlow14%
Tableau14%
pandas13%
Microsoft Power BI12%
Apache Spark10%
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 States26
Amgen Mexico S.A. de C.V.24
capitalone.wd12.capital_one17
NielsenIQ16
RELX Inc. Company15
Artefact15
HOME DEPOT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC14
Openai13
Pennsylvania CVS Pharmacy, L.L.C.13
Refinitiv Poland Spółka z o.o.13
Micron Memory Japan, K.K.12
Grab12

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