Data Scientist leads the field
Data Scientist is the most in-demand data & analytics role (327 open, 31% of the field), followed by Business Analyst (242).
Data & Analytics · State of the market
State of the Data & Analytics job market.
A live read on data & analytics hiring, built from 1,040 open roles across 225 companies - the 7th-largest field we track, and 2% of everything open. Updated hourly from public job postings.
Synced from public job postings · snapshot September 2026
1,040
Open roles
+84
Posted this week
225
Companies hiring
$157k
Median base, where disclosed
What the data says
Four things the listings tell us
There are 1,040 open data & analytics roles across 225 companies on LandEarly right now, with 84 posted in the past week. Senior-level roles make up 49% of the openings, and 60% of roles that specify a work model are fully remote.
Weighted toward senior experience
49% of open data & analytics roles read as senior-level. Entry-level (intern + junior) roles are 11% - a signal of how open this field is to early-career candidates.
A remote-friendly field
Of data & analytics roles that specify a work model, 60% are fully remote and 27% are hybrid. (Many listings don't declare one - this is the share among those that do.)
Companies hiring right now
Delivery Hero is the most active employer in data & analytics (58 open roles, 6% of the field), but the openings are spread across 225 companies in total.
Where the demand is
One field, 11 different jobs
“Data & Analytics” is a bucket, not a job. It rolls up 11 titles that share a craft but not a day - different scope, different level, different pay band. Which title you're chasing is the first cut worth making.
Open roles by title
Share of 1,040 listingsExperience level
All open rolesIntern2%
Junior9%
Mid29%
Senior49%
Staff6%
Principal2%
Executive2%
Read off each posting at ingest, not a field employers fill in - so this is a share of all 1,040 open roles, with nothing left out.
Work model
Where declaredOn-site 13%Hybrid 27%Remote 60%
Only 435 of 1,040 data & analytics listings declare a work model. These shares cover those, and no others.
Freshness
What’s open, by the week it posted
How old the live data & analytics pipeline is - the window where applying early still puts you in front of a human instead of a stack.
Jun 22This week
+84
data & analytics roles posted in the last seven days, across 225 employers - 8% of everything open in the field.
Each bar is the open roles posted that week, not a count of everything posted then: roles that have since closed are gone from it, so older weeks read lighter by design. The window starts when we began ingesting data & analytics listings, because a week-by-week series that ran further back would measure our board coverage rather than the market. 64 listings carry no posting date and sit out of this chart.
Pay, where disclosed
Base salary, from listings that state one
Base only. Bonus, commission and equity are real money but listings describe them too inconsistently to compare, so they stay out of the maths rather than inflate it.
25th percentile
$105k
The bottom of the middle 50%
Median
$157k
Half of priced listings pay more
75th percentile
$226k
Top of the middle 50%
$105k$157k$226k
What the number is
Computed from the 259 open data & analytics listings that state an annual base range - one midpoint per listing. The other 781 state none, and are not estimated in.
Data Scientist salary guideWho's hiring, and where
225 companies, 10 metros
Most active employers
Open data & analytics roles
Top locations
Open data & analytics rolesSan Francisco, CA103
New York, NY71
Seattle, WA19
Miami, FL18
Durham, NC14
Chicago, IL11
Stanford, CA10
Boston, MA9
Los Angeles, CA9
Palo Alto, CA8
Employers write locations as free text, so every spelling of a city is resolved to one market before it’s counted. A listing naming several markets counts in each, so these don’t sum to the field. The 691 that name no city - remote, “Hybrid”, a campus or a building - sit out entirely rather than get attributed to one.
Methodology
How we compute this
Short version: we count listings, we don't model them. Where the data is thin, the page says so instead of guessing.
Counted, not estimated
Every figure comes from the 1,040 active data & analytics listings we track across 12 applicant-tracking systems, ingested hourly from public job boards. A role that closes this morning drops out this afternoon.
Shares state their own denominator
Work-model percentages cover only the 435 listings that declare one. Experience level is read off every posting at ingest, so those shares cover the whole field. We’d rather show the smaller base than fill the gap.
A field rolls up related titles
Data & Analytics covers Data Scientist, Business Analyst, Data Analyst and 8 more titles. A posting joins a title when its own text describes that job - the roll-up is on the classified role, never on a keyword in the headline.
FAQ
Common questions
How many data & analytics jobs are open right now?
1,040 as of September 2026, across 225 companies, with 84 posted in the last seven days. The count is recomputed every hour and roles that close drop out the same day.
Which data & analytics roles are most in demand?
Data Scientist (327 open), Business Analyst (242 open), and Data Analyst (175 open) - out of 11 data & analytics titles carrying at least one open role today.
Are data & analytics jobs remote?
Of the 435 data & analytics listings that declare a work model, 60% are fully remote, 27% hybrid and 13% on-site. Most listings never say, so this is the share among those that do - not of the whole field.
What does a data & analytics job pay?
Median disclosed base is $157k, with the middle 50% between $105k and $226k. That is base only, computed from the 259 open data & analytics listings that state an annual range - bonus, commission and equity are excluded because listings describe them too inconsistently to compare.
What experience level are data & analytics jobs?
49% of open data & analytics roles read as senior-level, and 11% are entry-level (intern or junior). The level is read off each posting when we ingest it, so every open role is counted here.
Other fields
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