What do Companies Want in a Data Analyst and the Salaries They Offer in Return

Key insights based on data from 15K job ads that you can apply on your job search or self-improvement journey

The only AI-generated thing in this post

Hi, I’m Rafael, a Data Analyst in one of the most prominent Market Research companies in Europe. I think I’m pretty good at what I do, and I like my job as much as the next person, but it’s hard not suffering from Impostor’s Syndrome right now and starting to wonder whether you are keeping up with the myriad of tools, skills, and things in general being released in the world of IT.

Whether you think I’m having an identity crisis or not at this point 😆, the motivation behind this research is pretty basic: I took upon myself the task of going through around +15.000 job ads scraped from Linkedin to find out, among other things:

• How much are companies offering for a Data Analyst?
• What are the skills most in demand?
• Are buzzwords like “AI”, “Big Data”, etc. actually related to higher-paying jobs?

Bonus:

• I trained an ML model to predict whether or not a job had “high pay” and the results were pretty decent
• What about clichés like ‘ability to work under…