Skills That Pay: Salaries in Analytics

How skills like Excel, SQL and R can take your career to the next level

• By 2018 the US will face a

shortage* of:

• 190,000 people with deep

analytical skills

• 1.5 million managers and

analysts with the know-how

to use big data to drive

decisions

US Facing a Shortage of Analysts

*Based on McKinsey Global Report, Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, competition, and productivity

The Analytics Effect

$56,000

Marketing Analyst

$67,000

Learning Product Analyst

$110,000

Analytical Marketing Manager

$32,000

Content Writer

$45,000

Teacher

$98,000

Marketing Manager

75% increase

49% increase

12% increase

$60,000

Data Analyst

$65,000

Human Resources Analyst

$65,000

Business Analyst

$25,000

Data Entry Worker

$45,000

Recruiter

$47,000

Project Coordinator

The Analytics Effect

140% increase

44% increase

40% increase

6730

8382

8806

9619

9924

9955

13920

14244

16610

19690

0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000

SQL Server

Python

.NET Programming

Microsoft Office

Microsoft C#

LINUX

Microsoft Excel

JAVA

JavaScript

SQL

Number of Open Job Listings

Top 10 Required Skills for Jobs Listings with Salaries of $75,000+

Source: Burning Glass

*4 out of 10 are skills

revolving around data

• SQL (#1)

• Microsoft Excel (#4)

• Python (#9)

• SQL Server (#10)

Top 10 Skills for Jobs Paying $75,000+

$132,000

$128,250

$120,000

$116,920

$115,000

$113,000

$106,000

$100,000

$105,000

$110,000

$115,000

$120,000

$125,000

$130,000

$135,000

Software

Development

Manager

Software

Architect

Applications

Development

Manager

Systems Architect Data Scientist Data Architect Analytics

Manager

Top 7 Tech Jobs in the US, 2015 & 2016 Median Salary

2016 Median Salary

Top 7 Highest Paying Tech Jobs

*3 out of the top 7 are

data/analytics

focused jobs

• Data Scientist (#5)

• Data Architect (#6)

• Analytics Manager (#7)

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