Problem to solve: Investigate market trends for data science roles.
The context: An employee recruiting firm, DataSearch, needs to uncover job trends.
The dataset: A fictitious collection of key details from the job postings industry.
The task: Discover trends in jobs and skills within data science.
Key characteristics of the data:
- Key details from job postings from 2017 to 2021 for jobs in the Data and Analytics industry.
- Each row correlates to a specific job posting in time.
- One table containing 19 columns.
Key insights:
- As years of experience increase for a job, so does the associated salary.
- There is a correlation between job position level (Internship — Executive) and years of experience for a job.
- About half of the jobs are aimed at Mid-Senior position levels.
- Job postings from 2017 to 2021 are trending upward.
- Tech industries need data science roles the most.
- Data Analyst is the most popular role in data science.
- Some job postings list up to 10 different required skills for a job.
- Analyst jobs require Tableau as one of the top 3 skills.