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Washington, D.C. Sees Fall in Data Scientist Job Postings

Job postings for Data Scientists in Washington, D.C. fell by forty percent in the last seven days.

By Victor Lindahl, Mogi Research · Oct 10, 2026

Job postings for Data Scientists in Washington, D.C. fell by forty percent in the last seven days. This change saw postings go from ten to six.

This fall may reflect a wider pattern in the region, as overall new job postings for Data Scientists in the US fell by thirty four percent in the same period. Virginia saw a rise of one hundred ten percent in Data Scientist postings, adding twenty three new postings.

California saw its Data Scientist postings fall by forty percent, from twenty to twelve. Texas postings fell by fifty percent, and Georgia postings fell by seventy percent.

The numbers

Which states saw the biggest growth in data scientist roles in the last 7 days?

NameLast 7 daysThe 7 beforeChange
Washington, D.C.610-40%
Virginia4421+110%
California1220-40%
Texas612-50%
Georgia310-70%

Top roles: Data Scientist (6)

Top employers: Booz Allen Hamilton (5), Federal Communications Commission (1)

Washington, D.C. jobs by city

Data Analyst in Washington, DC37Full Stack Engineer in Washington, DC35Software Engineer in Washington, DC35Data Engineer in Washington, DC27Data Scientist in Washington, DC25DevOps Engineer in Washington, DC18Product Manager in Washington, DC9

Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 7 days to 2026-10-10 with the 7 days before them. Covers US, all states, Data Scientist. Employers with fewer than five postings in the last eight weeks are grouped together and left out of the rankings. The company details come from the crawl's company profiles, where the crawl has one.

Written by Victor Lindahl of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.

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