clustering jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-09-30, clustering appears in 749 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Data Scientist has the most postings mentioning clustering, with demand share up 1.4% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30

Postings · last 90 days
749
Demand vs prior month
up 1.4% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top role · 35.8% of skill postings
Top hiring metro
Bengaluru

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Frequently asked questions about clustering

+Is clustering in demand in 2026?

Yes. clustering appears in 749 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Data Scientist accounts for the most postings mentioning clustering (35.8% of all postings mentioning clustering).

+What jobs require clustering?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning clustering are Product Data Scientist (19.0% of that role’s postings mention clustering), Data & Analytics Engineer (9.5% of that role’s postings mention clustering), SQL Database Administrator (8.0% of that role’s postings mention clustering).

+What skills are commonly paired with clustering?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), clustering most often appears alongside Python, SQL, classification, machine learning, regression.

+Where is clustering most in demand?

As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring clustering are Bengaluru, New York City, London, Berlin, Broomfield, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

+How can I keep up with new clustering content and jobs?

Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning clustering alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new clustering content from your Skillenai account.

+Which skills come before and after clustering?

The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.

Weekly indexed postings requiring clustering — last 90 days

Salary distribution

Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized

Career paths around clustering

Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.

Historical career profiles · all locations

Skills before clustering

Before clusteringpython → clustering: 40 observed employer moves with this skill pairsql → clustering: 30 observed employer moves with this skill pairTableau → clustering: 29 observed employer moves with this skill pairPower BI → clustering: 16 observed employer moves with this skill pairsnowflake → clustering: 12 observed employer moves with this skill pairPySpark → clustering: 10 observed employer moves with this skill pairscikit-learn → clustering: 9 observed employer moves with this skill pairpandas → clustering: 9 observed employer moves with this skill pairclusteringpython: 40 movespython40 movessql: 30 movessql30 movesTableau: 29 movesTableau29 movesPower BI: 16 movesPower BI16 movessnowflake: 12 movessnowflake12 movesPySpark: 10 movesPySpark10 movesscikit-learn: 9 movesscikit-learn9 movespandas: 9 movespandas9 moves

Skills after clustering

After clusteringclustering → sql: 20 observed employer moves with this skill pairclustering → python: 16 observed employer moves with this skill pairclustering → Tableau: 15 observed employer moves with this skill pairclustering → PySpark: 14 observed employer moves with this skill pairclustering → Redshift: 9 observed employer moves with this skill pairclustering → AWS: 9 observed employer moves with this skill pairclustering → Power BI: 8 observed employer moves with this skill pairclustering → ETL: 8 observed employer moves with this skill pairclusteringsql: 20 movessql20 movespython: 16 movespython16 movesTableau: 15 movesTableau15 movesPySpark: 14 movesPySpark14 movesRedshift: 9 movesRedshift9 movesAWS: 9 movesAWS9 movesPower BI: 8 movesPower BI8 movesETL: 8 movesETL8 moves
How to read this chart · view counts

Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.

The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.

Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.

Observed connections and move counts
ConnectionMoves
Before: python40
Before: sql30
Before: Tableau29
Before: Power BI16
Before: snowflake12
Before: PySpark10
Before: scikit-learn9
Before: pandas9
After: sql20
After: python16
After: Tableau15
After: PySpark14
After: Redshift9
After: AWS9
After: Power BI8
After: ETL8

Roles most likely to require clustering

Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.

RolePostings mentioning skill% of role postings mentioning skill
Product Data Scientist1219.0%
Data & Analytics Engineer29.5%
SQL Database Administrator28.0%
Principal Data Scientist37.5%
Database Architect27.1%
Data Science Analyst25.9%
Data Science Consultant45.4%
Data Scientist2684.8%
Marketing Data Scientist14.8%
Marketing Analyst34.6%

Roles with the most clustering postings

RolePostings mentioning skillShare of skill postings
Data Scientist26835.8%
Software Engineer516.8%
Data Engineer374.9%
Machine Learning Engineer273.6%
Data Analyst243.2%
Database Administrator212.8%
Product Data Scientist121.6%
AI Engineer111.5%
ML Engineer111.5%
Systems Engineer111.5%

Top companies posting jobs requiring clustering

Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.

Top companies posting jobs requiring clustering
CompanyPostings · 90 days
Capital One48
Tripadvisor18
Anduril Industries18
General Motors9
SIA8
Waymo8
Artefact7
Anduril6
True Anomaly6
WPP6

Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.

Top metros hiring for clustering

NamePostingsShare
Bengaluru182.4%
New York City182.4%
London152.0%
Berlin121.6%
Broomfield121.6%
San Francisco101.3%
Amsterdam91.2%
Pune91.2%
Mountain View81.1%

Skills commonly paired with clustering

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How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning clustering by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s clustering postings by all clustering postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.3% to 0.3%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,596 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.

source
Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
entity_id
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data_as_of
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window_days
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Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index