The 5 Most Important Skills You Need To Get a Data Job in 2021
10 min readJan 28, 2021
A data-driven approach to understanding technical skills in the UK market.
Introduction
This article uses a web scraped dataset to analyse text and find the most common skills in data-related jobs. I’m focusing on technical/hard skills for this article and will tackle soft skills later on.
For each of the 5 most common skills, I’m going to cover:
- What is it?
- What the Data Says
- My Opinion
- Salary
- Learning
Basic Statistics
The dataset consists of 3,015 job titles including salaries.
The mean salary is £49,543.
The median salary is £44,000.
These seem quite high and we’ll discuss why later on.
Table of Contents
- Methodology
- Data Collection
- Analysis
- Bias - Job Titles
- Hard Skills
- Data Interpretation
1. SQL
2. Python
3. Power BI
4. R
5. Machine Learning - Regression Modelling
- Conclusion