Freelance Data Engineer Skills
The most common skills for freelance Data Engineers are Python, SQL, and AWS, based on how often they appear in 306 rate submissions.
To see the individual submissions behind these numbers, browse the Data Engineer hourly rates list, where you can filter by any skill below.
Skill frequency does not measure hiring demand or prove a skill increases rates. Skills with fewer than 5 records are omitted. Methodology
Most common skills — share of submissions
All tracked skills
| Skill | Share of submissions | Submissions | Rates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 46.4% | 142 | View → |
| SQL | 19.6% | 60 | View → |
| AWS | 17.3% | 53 | View → |
| Airflow | 11.4% | 35 | View → |
| Azure | 9.8% | 30 | View → |
| Spark | 9.5% | 29 | View → |
| Microsoft Azure | 8.8% | 27 | View → |
| Snowflake | 8.5% | 26 | View → |
| Tableau | 6.5% | 20 | View → |
| PowerBI | 6.5% | 20 | View → |
| BigQuery | 6.5% | 20 | View → |
| dbt | 5.9% | 18 | View → |
| GCP | 5.2% | 16 | View → |
| Looker Studio | 5.2% | 16 | View → |
| T-SQL | 4.2% | 13 | View → |
| MSSQL Server | 3.9% | 12 | View → |
| ETL | 3.6% | 11 | View → |
| PostgreSQL | 3.3% | 10 | View → |
| Scala | 3.3% | 10 | View → |
| Data Science | 3.3% | 10 | View → |