Technology skill
SQL jobs
The query language for relational databases: how you pull, filter, and join data that lives in tables. The baseline data skill. Below: the 8 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What SQL unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Data Engineer | 600 | salary |
| Software Engineer | 600 | salary |
| Backend Developer | 569 | salary |
| Data Scientist | 458 | salary |
| Data Analyst | 429 | salary |
| Product Analyst | 72 | salary |
| BI Developer | 69 | salary |
| Database Administrator | 51 | salary |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as SQL.
- dbttogether in 102
- Pandas/NumPytogether in 52
- Data Modelingtogether in 176
- Lookertogether in 97
- Airflowtogether in 129
- Tableautogether in 126
Quick answers
What is SQL?
The query language for relational databases: how you pull, filter, and join data that lives in tables. The baseline data skill. On this board it is a technology skill, extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape. Every skill, defined: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for SQL?
SQL unlocks 8 occupations on this board, with 2,848 live roles across them right now. The largest is Data Engineer (600 open).
What skills pair with SQL?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside SQL are dbt (together in 102), Pandas/NumPy (together in 52), Data Modeling (together in 176).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.