Senior Data Scientist
Microsoft · Austin, TX, US
Hiring signals for Data Scientists
SOC 15-2051 — measured across all currently-active postings classified to this occupation.
49
/ 100
Cooling
Data Scientists Job Market Score
Driven by
- Pay is above the national median ($185k vs $133k national)
- Slow inflow of new postings (only 6% from the last 14 days)
- Few reposted listings (30% appear duplicated)
Data Scientists job market
Aggregated from currently-active postings tracked in Data Scientists.
- 929Active postings
- 37Posted this week
- 365Open 30+ days39% of active
- 145Remote / hybrid16% of active
- 15%List salary142 of 929
- 0%Hourly0 of disclosed
- $185kMedian annual (max)
- —Median hourly (max)
- 23dMedian agep90 64d (long tail)
Wages by category
Wages by employment type
Wages by sector
Top categories
- Data Science884
- ML / AI Engineering12
- VP7
- Director6
- Engineering1
- Growth1
In-demand skills
- Python230
- SQL167
- Apache Spark76
- PyTorch70
- TensorFlow69
- AWS63
- scikit-learn55
- Azure48
Top sectors
- Technology570
- Financial Services248
- Manufacturing129
- Media & Entertainment88
- Retail73
- Transportation & Logistics66
Employment mix
- Unspecified850 · 91%
- Full-time33 · 4%
- Contract22 · 2%
- Part-time12 · 1%
- Intern12 · 1%
Top hiring companies
- Category
- Data Science
- Salary
- $120k–$235k
- Source
- apply.careers.microsoft.com
- Original link
- https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/1970393556833959
- Posted
- 2 weeks ago (2026-04-25)
- Status
- active
Activities: Hiring, Research
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- Applied · 0
- No response · 0
- Interviewed · 0
- Rejected · 0
- Hired · 0
- Posting still active · 0
- Posting removed · 0
- Reposted · 0
- Suspicious · 0
- Description vague · 0
- Salary unclear · 0
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