Writing a data scientist resume

Everything below is counted from 2,591 live data scientistpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 2,591
Employers: 959
Remote: 17%
Typical pay: $100k–232k
Verified live (7d): 2,335

What they ask for

Counted across 1,458 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python90%
Large Language Models33%
Amazon Web Services31%
Natural Language Processing23%
Microsoft Azure18%
PyTorch18%
Databricks16%
Google Cloud Platform15%
TensorFlow13%
pandas13%
Tableau13%
Microsoft Power BI13%
Apache Spark10%
NumPy10%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Booz Allen Hamilton_United States106
Walmart52
RELX Inc. Company46
Launch Potato36
Micron Memory Japan, K.K.36
capitalone.wd12.capital_one32
Refinitiv Poland Spółka z o.o.24
The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Canada)17
CACI, INC.-FEDERAL16
Reddit15
Artefact15
Company 1 - The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company13

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