The 5 Most Important Skills You Need To Get a Data Job in 2021

A data-driven approach to understanding technical skills in the UK market.

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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

Methodology