Data Analyst resume keywords
These are the skills, tools and certifications that show up most often in data analyst job postings in the US. Use only the ones that are true for you.
Asked for in most postings
- SQL
- Excel
- data analysis
- data visualization
- reporting
- dashboards
- data cleaning
- statistics
Often listed as a plus
- Python
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Google Analytics
- A/B testing
- R
Example: the same experience, written two ways
Before: Made reports from company data.
After: Built weekly sales dashboards in Power BI from SQL queries, cleaned 3 years of order data and found a pricing issue worth $90K a year.
Tip: Put tools in a Skills line (SQL, Excel, Tableau) and also show them used in a bullet. Both get searched.