Monthly edition · Data frozen on 9 Nov 2026
Data Scientist Job Market, November 2026: 1,331 US roles at 345 companies
The November 2026 edition of the US data scientist report, frozen from the live report.
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In short
Data frozen on 9 Nov 2026. This edition is a fixed copy of the report as it stood on 2026-11-08 and will not change. For current numbers, see the live data scientist job market report.
Every figure below is a count, as of 2026-11-08, 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.
345
Companies hiring
Distinct employers with at least one live US data scientist role, after normalising name variants.
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.
Skills data scientist postings list
This edition was frozen before the report recorded this figure, so it is not shown. Later editions carry it.
Pay posted in US data scientist roles
This edition was frozen before the report recorded this figure, so it is not shown. Later editions carry it.
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.
- Data Scientist814 roles · 61%
- Applied Scientist383 roles · 29%
- Analytics Scientist60 roles · 5%
- Product Data Scientist41 roles · 3%
- Research Scientist (Data)21 roles · 2%
- Decision Scientist12 roles · 1%
Percentages are the share of US data scientist roles.
Experience level requested
This edition was frozen before the report recorded this figure, so it is not shown. Later editions carry it. Entry level alone: 128 roles (10%).
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.
- California319 roles · 24%
- Washington234 roles · 18%
- New York138 roles · 10%
- Virginia86 roles · 6%
- Texas53 roles · 4%
- Georgia46 roles · 3%
- Massachusetts45 roles · 3%
- Illinois26 roles · 2%
- New Jersey20 roles · 2%
- North Carolina18 roles · 1%
- Remote (US)95 roles · 7%
Percentages are the share of US data scientist roles.
Employers with the most data scientist roles, November 2026
Live US data scientist roles per employer. Sources we read, not customers or endorsements.
- Amazon338 roles · 25%
- Booz Allen Hamilton52 roles · 4%
- TikTok41 roles · 3%
- Wal-Mart.com USA34 roles · 3%
- Google33 roles · 2%
- Microsoft30 roles · 2%
- The Home Depot28 roles · 2%
- Guidehouse23 roles · 2%
- General Dynamics Information Technology21 roles · 2%
- 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
- 19 postings say the employer sponsors a visa or will consider it, 111 say it will not, and 1,201 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, but this edition is not: it was frozen on 9 Nov 2026 and is never updated. It is cut from the same frozen file as the analyst edition of the same month.
- 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?
You are welcome to cite these figures. This edition never changes, so the link below always shows the same numbers. Keep the month and sample size with any statistic you quote.
RealAnalystJobs, Data Scientist Job Market Report, November 2026 edition. Data: 1,331 live US data scientist roles on 2026-11-08. https://realanalystjobs.com/data-scientist-job-market/2026-11
https://realanalystjobs.com/data-scientist-job-market/2026-11
Monthly editions
Once a month this report is frozen as an edition that never changes, so a figure can be cited with a fixed link.
- November 2026 (this edition)
Related data and listings
Compiled by Anil Kumar, founder of RealAnalystJobs. Data date , frozen on . Data licensed CC BY 4.0; download this edition as JSON. Current numbers: the live report.
