300+ Data & Analytics Jobs in Atlanta, GA

The cleanest observed local pay anchor is BLS's May 2025 metro data for data scientists: $108,940 median, with a 25th-75th percentile band of $90,510 to $144,670. Broader 2026 posting-based signals are directionally useful but not identical measures: Atlanta salary ranges in the Callings.ai job database center on about $100k to $159k for the category overall, while Atlanta data analyst postings in Salient Insights show a much lower median of $75,000 and a typical range of $67,500 to $82,500.

Full August 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 148 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $87,500 at the 25th percentile, $110,500 at the median and $145,049 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 25, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Atlanta is a viable but selective market for Data, Analytics & AI over the next 3-6 months. The local economy is tight, with 3.2% unemployment in July 2026 and metro employment up 1.1652% year over year, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Georgia data, analytics & AI postings up 17.7% year over year even as statewide employment in the field edged down 0.9%. That mix usually means there are openings, but employers are filling them carefully rather than hiring broadly. Pay remains attractive in the local data-scientist track, with a May 2025 BLS median of $108,940 and a 25th-75th percentile range of $90,510 to $144,670.

Best positioned: You have the best odds right now if you already bring Python, SQL, and some mix of machine learning, cloud, BI, or GenAI work samples, and you are open to hybrid or on-site roles.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming Atlanta is a remote-first generalist market; only about 15% of sampled roles were remote, and analyst pay can sit well below data-scientist pay in this metro.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 335 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. The Home Depot, Inc.: 33 open roles
2. The Coca-Cola Company: 6 open roles
3. Deloitte: 5 open roles
4. Fidelity Information Services, LLC: 5 open roles
5. Global Payments Inc.: 5 open roles
6. Alignerr Corp.: 4 open roles
7. Bank of America Corporation: 4 open roles
8. Cargill Inc.: 4 open roles
9. Equifax Inc.: 4 open roles
10. Google Inc: 4 open roles

Where the openings are

• Atlanta: 259
• Alpharetta: 26
• Marietta: 4
• Duluth: 4
• Hartford: 3
• Jacksonville: 3
• Charlotte: 2
• Carrollton: 2

Work arrangement

on-site 200 (62%), hybrid 86 (27%), remote 37 (11%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is spread across a long tail of employers rather than concentrated in one giant hirer. In the Callings.ai sample, Atlanta had more than 200 postings across more than 150 companies in the last 90 days, concentration was fragmented, and The Home Depot, Inc. was the most consistently active named employer with around 20 postings. The most-active industry buckets in the sample were software development at about 20%, home furniture & housewares stores at about 15%, insurance about 15%, technology about 15%, and financial services about 10%. That mix matters because Atlanta demand is not just startup AI labs. There are openings inside large corporate environments, consumer brands, and industrial operations, as shown by roles from Inspire Brands and TK Elevator's North America Digital Operations Center. Early-career demand exists, but it is thinner: only about 25% of sampled roles were entry level, while mid, senior, and lead+ roles made up the majority.

• Enterprise analytics in retail and consumer brands (high): Large employers and consumer-facing teams look attractive because retail and home-goods environments are prominent in the sample, and The Home Depot plus Inspire Brands show live Atlanta demand.
• Insurance and financial-services analytics (high): Insurance and financial services together account for about 25% of the sampled industry mix, which makes domain knowledge valuable for analysts, decision scientists, and applied-modeling candidates.
• Applied AI in industrial and operations settings (moderate): TK Elevator's Atlanta role shows demand for IoT-driven analytics and AI tied to reliability and service operations, which is a good fit for candidates with optimization, forecasting, or sensor-data backgrounds.
• Early-career internship and junior pathways (limited): There are entry routes, including a Booz Allen Data Scientist Intern posting, but they are a minority of the local sample and will be more competitive.

Where to focus: If you have 2+ years of experience, focus first on enterprise teams in retail, insurance, financial services, and operations-heavy businesses where Atlanta shows repeatable demand and where business context can beat a pure-modeling resume.

Roles worth searching next

• AI or Data Product Manager: This is a good bridge if you are strongest at translating data work into decisions, roadmaps, and stakeholder outcomes.
• Marketing Analyst or Market Research Analyst: If your background is measurement, dashboarding, experimentation, and customer insights, marketing analytics is a clean adjacent lane, and market-research work is better treated as its own category.
• FP&A or Financial Analyst with analytics depth: Atlanta's sample includes about 10% financial-services demand, and finance teams often value SQL, forecasting, and visualization even when they do not hire for pure data-science titles.
• FinOps or Cloud Cost Analyst: A local Atlanta FinOps event featured data workload optimization and token economics, which signals crossover demand for people who can connect analytics to cloud spend and AI usage.

What postings ask for

• Python (table_stakes | immediate): Python appeared in about 75% of sampled Atlanta postings and remains a baseline across data science and analytics roles. Who: Everyone in this category.
• SQL (table_stakes | immediate): SQL showed up in about 60% of sampled Atlanta postings, and some analyst tasks are now AI-assisted, so employers expect speed plus correctness rather than beginner familiarity. Who: Everyone, especially entry-level candidates and career switchers.
• Tableau or Power BI (table_stakes | immediate): Visualization remains core in Atlanta, with Tableau in about 25% and Power BI in about 15% of sampled postings; it is still the fastest way to prove business-ready output. Who: Analysts, BI-focused candidates, and switchers who need visible portfolio work.
• Machine learning (differentiator | near-term): Machine learning appeared in about 30% of sampled Atlanta roles, which helps separate higher-paying data-science tracks from basic reporting jobs. Who: Mid-career analysts trying to move up and data scientists competing for stronger pay.
• AWS or cloud platform fluency (differentiator | near-term): AWS appeared in about 20% of sampled Atlanta roles, and national guidance treats cloud platforms as table-stakes capability for modern data work. Who: Mid-career candidates, analytics engineers, and BI professionals moving toward data science or AI work.
• Generative AI, LLMs, and NLP (premium | immediate): Atlanta employers are explicitly advertising GenAI, LLM, and NLP requirements, and U.S. postings mentioning AI skills had more than doubled by May 2026. Who: Mid-career and senior candidates who want to move into premium AI-heavy openings.

Questions about this market

What do Data, Analytics & AI roles pay in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA?

The cleanest observed local pay anchor is BLS's May 2025 metro data for data scientists: $108,940 median, with a 25th-75th percentile band of $90,510 to $144,670. Broader 2026 posting-based signals are directionally useful but not identical measures: Atlanta salary ranges in the Callings.ai job database center on about $100k to $159k for the category overall, while Atlanta data analyst postings in Salient Insights show a much lower median of $75,000 and a typical range of $67,500 to $82,500. Atlanta can pay well, but Data, Analytics & AI is not one pay market. Data-scientist and AI-heavy roles sit in a different band from analyst jobs, and Georgia's mean offered salary on new openings for the category was about $114,190 versus about $79,069 across all occupations.

Where is demand for Data, Analytics & AI roles in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA concentrated?

Real opportunity is spread across a long tail of employers rather than concentrated in one giant hirer. In the Callings.ai sample, Atlanta had more than 200 postings across more than 150 companies in the last 90 days, concentration was fragmented, and The Home Depot, Inc. was the most consistently active named employer with around 20 postings. The most-active industry buckets in the sample were software development at about 20%, home furniture & housewares stores at about 15%, insurance about 15%, technology about 15%, and financial services about 10%. That mix matters because Atlanta demand is not just startup AI labs. There are openings inside large corporate environments, consumer brands, and industrial operations, as shown by roles from Inspire Brands and TK Elevator's North America Digital Operations Center. Early-career demand exists, but it is thinner: only about 25% of sampled roles were entry level, while mid, senior, and lead+ roles made up the majority.

Which employers are hiring the most Data, Analytics & AI talent in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA?

Recent postings show the most activity from The Home Depot, Inc. (20 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Data, Analytics & AI roles in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 15% are remote and 35% hybrid, with 50% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

Openings come from the Callings.ai live index of over 13 million jobs, refreshed hourly. This page searches postings from the last 30 days; run the search yourself to filter by anything else in plain language.

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