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§ 01

THE FLOOR

Skills you can't skip. Below this floor your resume doesn't get opened.

3MUST-HAVE SKILLS
Skills · ranked by prevalence
01Python73.2%The language. 3 in 4 jobs.
02SQL57.7%DB literacy is foundational.
03AWS46.4%Dominant cloud platform.
On the bubble
Problem SolvingJava
Floor skills derived from validated data engineering postings on the astrid.postingmeta collection at JUNIOR + ENTRY seniority.
§ 02

PICK YOUR TRACK

Sub-tracks within this profile. Picking one is non-optional.

01

DATA PLATFORM

← THE DEFAULT
FA share84.1%of FA postings · n = 153
Salary₹20± ₹9LPA · mean ± SD
Company mix
MNCs & GCCs~48%
Unicorns & Indian Product~17%
MAANG & Elite Global Tech~12%
Hires at
AccentureMicrosoftScout Inc.InvestCloud Inc.PwC India
Add to the floor
SparkJavaAzureETLProblem SolvingData Pipelines
02

DATABASE-CENTRIC

← DBA-LEANING
FA share15.9%of FA postings · n = 29
Salary₹14± ₹7LPA · mean ± SD
Company mix
MNCs & GCCs~48%
Established SME~20%
MAANG & Elite Global Tech~10%
Hires at
BairesDevPwC IndiaCredHiveGreyLabs AILSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
Add to the floor
Problem SolvingJavaAgileData ProcessingPandasMicroservices
Small fresher sample, treat as directional only.
Track shares and salary statistics (mean ± SD) derived from validated data engineering postings on the astrid.postingmeta collection at JUNIOR + ENTRY seniority.
§ 03

THE SKILL ARC

What ramps with seniority. What travels if you leave the profile.

A

Senior skew — what ramps with seniority.

Rising · FA → SR
01PySpark
FA10.8%
SR22.4%
+11.6 pp
02Azure DevOps
FA6.2%
SR17.3%
+11.2 pp
03Spark
FA33.0%
SR44.0%
+11.0 pp
04Data Pipelines
FA27.3%
SR36.7%
+9.4 pp
05Scala
FA22.7%
SR31.9%
+9.2 pp
06Hadoop
FA11.9%
SR20.6%
+8.8 pp
07Agile
FA20.1%
SR28.8%
+8.7 pp
08ETL
FA30.4%
SR37.8%
+7.4 pp
09Azure
FA32.0%
SR39.3%
+7.4 pp
Fading · FA → SR
01Python
FA73.2%
SR62.6%
-10.6 pp
02Problem Solving
FA39.2%
SR31.2%
-8.0 pp
03JavaScript
FA11.3%
SR5.3%
-6.0 pp
B

Portability — what travels if you leave the profile.

Portable · cross-profile spread (out of 15)
01Agile
15/15
Fullstack Development47%Enterprise Platforms43%Generalist SWE40%
02Problem Solving
15/15
Mobile Development41%Data Analytics & BI40%Enterprise Platforms40%
03Troubleshooting
13/15
Enterprise Platforms36%DevOps & Platform32%Generalist SWE21%
04Java
12/15
Backend Development59%Fullstack Development42%Security Engineering42%
05SQL
12/15
Data Analytics & BI63%Fullstack Development45%Backend Development36%
06Python
11/15
Data Science & ML78%AI & LLM Applications66%DevOps & Platform51%
07System Design
11/15
Generalist SWE27%Backend Development18%DevOps & Platform17%
08AWS
11/15
DevOps & Platform48%Security Engineering43%Backend Development41%
09Performance Optimization
11/15
Mobile Development26%Frontend Development20%Generalist SWE20%
10Azure
10/15
Security Engineering40%DevOps & Platform35%AI & LLM Applications30%
11Git
10/15
Frontend Development38%Mobile Development35%Fullstack Development34%
12Distributed Systems
9/15
Backend Development24%DevOps & Platform21%Security Engineering20%
13Kubernetes
9/15
DevOps & Platform49%Backend Development32%Security Engineering31%
Locked · stays inside the profile
01ETL2/15
02Spark2/15
03Scala1/15
04Data Modeling2/15
05Databricks1/15
06Data Warehousing2/15
07Snowflake1/15
08PySpark1/15
09Airflow1/15
10Hadoop1/15
11Data Processing2/15
12Views1/15
13Data Transformation2/15
14Data Governance1/15
15Data Quality1/15
Skill arc derived from validated data engineering postings on the astrid.postingmeta collection. FA = ENTRY + JUNIOR seniority; cross-profile spread computed at the 10% prevalence threshold across all 15 profiles.
§ 04

TARGETING YOUR COMPANY POOL

Hiring volume splits across two distinct company pools with different skill profiles.

MAANG & Tier-1 Tech

n = 192usable
CompaniesGoogleAmazonMetaStripeAtlassian
Skill skew · MAANG & Tier-1 Tech vs IT Services & BPO
% in MAANGSkill% in IT ServicesSkew
58.3%
Distributed Systems
2.6%
+55.7 pp
65.0%
Java
14.9%
+50.2 pp
42.7%
C/C++
1.5%
+41.2 pp
51.5%
Scala
22.1%
+29.4 pp
30.6%
JavaScript
1.5%
+29.0 pp
22.3%
Distributed System Design
0.5%
+21.8 pp
21.4%
Database Monitoring
2.6%
+18.8 pp
55.3%
Spark
37.4%
+17.9 pp
25.2%
Data Processing
8.7%
+16.5 pp

IT Services & BPO

n = 193usable
CompaniesTCSInfosysWiproLTIMindtreeCognizant
Skill skew · MAANG & Tier-1 Tech vs IT Services & BPO
% in MAANGSkill% in IT ServicesSkew
16.0%
Problem Solving
49.7%
-33.7 pp
6.3%
Agile
37.9%
-31.6 pp
0.5%
PySpark
24.1%
-23.6 pp
0.0%
SOLID
18.5%
-18.5 pp
6.8%
Databricks
24.6%
-17.8 pp
10.7%
GCP
26.2%
-15.5 pp
1.5%
Requirements Analysis
16.9%
-15.5 pp
13.6%
SDLC
28.7%
-15.1 pp
0.5%
Software Validation
13.8%
-13.4 pp
Company-pool skills derived from validated data engineering postings on the astrid.postingmeta collection, scoped to the MAANG + Tier-1 Global and IT Services & BPO company classes.