Original research
What analyst job postings actually say
We read the descriptions of the analyst roles on realanalystjobs.com and count what they ask for. Each study below is dated, states its sample and method, names its limits, and links to a JSON download.
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Data read on 7 October 2026
How many US analyst jobs offer visa sponsorship?
Of 1,128 US analyst postings read on 7 October 2026, 87% say nothing about visa sponsorship, 10% say no, and 2.6% (29 postings at Capital One, Anthropic, Bounteous and EvolutionIQ) say they sponsor or will consider it.
Read the studyData read on 7 and 8 October 2026
Power BI or Tableau: which do analyst job postings ask for more?
It depends on the country: in 2,416 analyst postings read on 7 and 8 October 2026, Tableau leads in the US (27% vs 19%) and Canada, Power BI leads in India (32% vs 24%) and the UK, and SQL appears in more postings than either (51% to 60%).
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Do entry-level data analyst jobs require experience?
Mostly no: of 83 junior-titled analyst postings read on 7 and 8 October 2026, 54 (65%) ask for no years of experience, 7 say 0 to N years, 16 ask for 1 year, and only 6 (7%) ask for 2 or more.
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Which SQL skills do data analyst jobs actually ask for?
Analysis SQL, not database administration: 1,237 (50%) of 2,464 analyst postings read on 7 and 8 October 2026 name SQL; of those, 42% ask for strong SQL and 23% data modeling, while backup, indexing, installation and replication each appear in under 1%.
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How these studies are made
The board reads analyst roles from companies' own career pages every day. For each study we take one snapshot, read the job description on each role's page, remove the reposting sites Jobgether and Weekday and duplicate postings, and count by pattern, checking unclear cases by hand. The live market figures (role counts, skills, countries) are in the Analyst Job Market Report, and how the board collects its data is on the data and citation page.
