India Analytics & Big Data Salary report - 2016

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Research methodology

• These insights and trends have been collected from more than 60,000 analytics professionals from India

• These professionals came in touch with Analytics Vidhya through various initiatives like jobs portal,

hackathons, hiring competitions, meetups and several other initiatives

• People with only advanced analytics / data science skills were considered as part of the study e.g. a

person with complete experience in MIS was not considered as part of the study

• The findings are open to biases arising because of the nature of jobs / competitions hosted on Analytics

Vidhya’s website. However, we believe the insights would help thousands of people take right career

decisions.

Salary spread by tools

• On a stand alone basis, R pays

the most – 10.2 Lakhs p.a.

• Knowing multiple tools yields

better pay – the more you know,

the better

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Salary spread by techniques

• Big Data and Data Science skills

are both hot!

• Combination is deadly – getting

26% higher salary than Data

Science

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Salary spread by City

• Mumbai seems to pay the

highest salary

• When adjusted for cost of living,

Kolkata makes it to the top

Salary spread by experience

• A salary jump as high as 70% happens

once a person gains close to 5 years

of experience

• Experience in data science and

analytics looks to age like a wine –

the more, the better!

Salary spread by company size

• As expected, startups are

relying on Open source tools

to keep the costs down

• Startups are also willing to

pay a premium for

candidates with same skills

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