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Data Scientist Job Market (US)

US data scientist hiring, computed from live listings on company career pages.

Last updated: 2026-11-08Period: roles live on that dateSample: 1,331 US roles
On this page
  1. Key figures
  2. Skills
  3. Pay
  4. Title families
  5. Experience level
  6. By state
  7. Top employers
  8. Visa evidence
  9. What this report does not claim
  10. Methodology
  11. Cite this data
  12. Monthly editions

In short

On 2026-11-08, 1,331 US data scientist roles were live at 345 companies. 57% are at employers with a USCIS H-1B record, 7% are remote and 10% are entry level; the median midpoint of the 487 US dollar annual pay ranges posted is $183,000. Python is the skill listed most, on 96% of roles with a listed tech stack.

This is the live version and changes daily. To cite a fixed set of numbers, use the latest monthly edition: November 2026.

Every figure below is a live count over 1,331 US data scientist roles at 345 companies, read from the companies' own careers pages. These roles come from the separate data science list and are not in the analyst job market report totals. Nothing is estimated; where the data cannot support a metric, the report says so.

Key figures

1,331

US data scientist roles

Data science titles whose listing country is the United States, remote US roles included.

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345

Companies hiring

Distinct employers with at least one live US data scientist role, after normalising name variants.

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57%

At employers with an H-1B record

764 roles at 123 employers with at least one approved H-1B worker in the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. Employer history, not a statement that the role sponsors.

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7%

Remote

95 roles whose location, or the employer's stated work mode, is remote.

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10%

Entry level

128 roles whose stated experience is entry level (the board's seniority buckets).

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37%

State a pay range

488 postings state an unambiguous two-ended pay range, in any currency or period.

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$183,000

Median posted pay, midpoint

Median of the midpoints of the 487 US dollar annual ranges posted. Hourly and monthly ranges are not converted.

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96%

Roles listing Python

Share of the 1,071 roles with an extracted tech stack that list Python. Extracted from posting text, so a lower bound.

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Skills data scientist postings list

Share of roles whose posting lists each skill, top 15. Base: the 1,071 roles (of 1,331) with an extracted tech stack; a skill is counted once per role. Skills are extracted from posting text against a fixed list of tools, so every share is a lower bound and modelling libraries outside that list are not counted.

  1. Python1,033 roles · 96%
  2. SQL656 roles · 61%
  3. R375 roles · 35%
  4. Spark247 roles · 23%
  5. AWS240 roles · 22%
  6. Tableau139 roles · 13%
  7. Azure97 roles · 9%
  8. Snowflake86 roles · 8%
  9. Power BI73 roles · 7%
  10. dbt51 roles · 5%
  11. Airflow48 roles · 4%
  12. BigQuery42 roles · 4%
  13. Looker36 roles · 3%
  14. Excel33 roles · 3%
  15. Redshift22 roles · 2%

Percentages are the share of roles with a listed tech stack.

Pay posted in US data scientist roles

488 of 1,331 postings (37%) state a two-ended pay range. Of those, 487 are US dollar annual ranges: the sample for the figures below. Each range counts once, at its midpoint. Figures are shown only when at least 30 such ranges exist.

25th percentile
$150,000
Median
$183,000
75th percentile
$222,500

n = 487 US dollar annual ranges, midpoints. Quartiles interpolate between ranks.

Title families

The site's data science title classifier: applied, decision, product, analytics and research (data) scientist titles, then plain data scientist. The first family whose rule matches wins.

  1. Data Scientist814 roles · 61%
  2. Applied Scientist383 roles · 29%
  3. Analytics Scientist60 roles · 5%
  4. Product Data Scientist41 roles · 3%
  5. Research Scientist (Data)21 roles · 2%
  6. Decision Scientist12 roles · 1%

Percentages are the share of US data scientist roles.

Experience level requested

Seniority read from each posting's stated experience, in the board's buckets. Not specified is reported, not redistributed.

  1. Entry Level128 roles · 10%
  2. Mid Level477 roles · 36%
  3. Senior118 roles · 9%
  4. Lead / Staff138 roles · 10%
  5. Not Specified470 roles · 35%

Percentages are the share of US data scientist roles.

Where the roles are: top US states

The state each posting names, top 10 shown, with remote US roles as their own row. 117 roles name no state and are not placed in one.

  1. California319 roles · 24%
  2. Washington234 roles · 18%
  3. New York138 roles · 10%
  4. Virginia86 roles · 6%
  5. Texas53 roles · 4%
  6. Georgia46 roles · 3%
  7. Massachusetts45 roles · 3%
  8. Illinois26 roles · 2%
  9. New Jersey20 roles · 2%
  10. North Carolina18 roles · 1%
  11. Remote (US)95 roles · 7%

Percentages are the share of US data scientist roles.

Employers with the most data scientist roles right now

Live US data scientist roles per employer. Sources we read, not customers or endorsements.

  1. Amazon338 roles · 25%
  2. Booz Allen Hamilton52 roles · 4%
  3. TikTok41 roles · 3%
  4. Wal-Mart.com USA34 roles · 3%
  5. Google33 roles · 2%
  6. Microsoft30 roles · 2%
  7. The Home Depot28 roles · 2%
  8. Guidehouse23 roles · 2%
  9. General Dynamics Information Technology21 roles · 2%
  10. Leidos17 roles · 1%

Percentages are the share of US data scientist roles.

Visa evidence

Two different things, kept apart: what the employer has done before, and what the posting itself says.

Employer H-1B record
764 of 1,331 roles (57%) are at 123 employers with at least one approved H-1B worker in the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, in any occupation. That is the employer's history, not a promise that a listed role sponsors.
What postings say
0 postings say the employer sponsors a visa or will consider it, 0 say it will not, and 1,331 say neither. Only the posting's own text counts; silence is not read as a yes or a no.

What this report does not claim

Whether a given role sponsors a visa
An H-1B record means the employer has had at least one H-1B worker approved, in any occupation. It is history, not a promise about any role listed here. Only a posting that says so in its own text is counted as saying it sponsors.
Salary benchmarks for data scientists
The pay figures are the midpoints of ranges that employers chose to post, in US dollars a year. Postings without a range, hourly ranges and other currencies are left out, so this is what disclosed postings say, not what data scientists earn. Below 30 such ranges no median or quartile is shown.
Hiring trends over time
The feed keeps only live roles, so there is no history inside one report. Monthly editions compare themselves with the previous edition where both exist, and give no percentage change below 30 listings.
Data science roles outside the US
This report covers the US data science list only. Machine learning, AI and data engineering roles are not data science titles here and are not counted.

Methodology & definitions

Source
Roles are read directly from companies' own careers pages and applicant-tracking systems. No third-party job boards are scraped. One row per application link.
Update frequency
The feed is rebuilt every night; roles that have come down at the source are removed. This page refreshes within an hour of a rebuild.
Data scientist role
A title the site's data science classifier matches (data, applied, decision, product, analytics or research data scientist) whose listing country is the United States. Machine learning, AI and data engineers, internships and postdocs are never counted.
Period
All counts describe the roles live on the data date (2026-11-08). A snapshot, not a time series.
Skills
The scraper's fixed tool list (SQL, Python, R, Spark, AWS, Snowflake, Tableau and others), matched as whole words in the posting text. Base: roles with at least one extracted tool. Lower bounds.
Pay
Disclosed means an unambiguous two-ended range with a currency. The median and quartiles use only US dollar annual ranges, one midpoint per posting, and are shown only when at least 30 exist. The sample size is always given.
Remote and states
Remote when the location or the employer's stated work mode says so. Otherwise the state the location names; a location with no state is reported as unplaced, never guessed.
Visa
H-1B record: at least one approved worker in the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. Posting sponsorship: what the posting text says, read once when the role is loaded.

Want to reference this data?

This page is the live version and its numbers change daily. For a citation that stays fixed, cite the latest monthly edition (November 2026) instead. Keep the month and sample size with any statistic you quote.

RealAnalystJobs, Data Scientist Job Market Report, November 2026. Data: 1,331 live US data scientist roles on 2026-11-08. https://realanalystjobs.com/data-scientist-job-market

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