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Technology

Data Scientist in the United States

350 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 350 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

None. Across 350 postings, no certification or licence was named often enough to call it a requirement. For this role in this market, employers are hiring on demonstrated work rather than credentials — which means money spent on a certificate here is unlikely to be what gets you the interview.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

  • Bachelor’s degree48%
  • Master’s degree44%
  • Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree4%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 15-2051.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$67,240
10th percentile
$120,230
median
$199,130
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Reddit · Pinterest · Zoox · Roblox · Nuro · Anthropic · Databricks · Lyft · Torc Robotics · Scale AI · Stripe · HelloFresh · Coinbase · Instacart · Faire · Chime · Lyra Health · Anduril Industries · Datadog · Oura · Robinhood · Affirm · Attentive · Charlie Health · FanDuel · Figma · Lucid Motors · Path Robotics · Samsara · SoFi · Allen Control Systems · Braze · Discord · Gusto · Oscar Health · Rocket Money · Skild AI · Agility Robotics · Cloudflare · Culture Amp · Cursor · Duolingo · Insurify · Monzo · Ramp · SpaceX · Toast · Zocdoc · Alloy · Apptronik · Asana · Blink Health · Brex · Clover Health · Diligent Robotics · Fanatics Commerce · Fivetran · Freenome · Hut 8 · Instawork · Kodiak Robotics · MongoDB · Nimble Robotics · Notion · Postman · Redwood Materials · Spring Health · Twilio · Vercel · Via · Wealthfront · Wiz

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