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Top Five Cities For Big Data Jobs
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The Big Data movement, which has spurred IT departments across the nation to find the right people to collect, analyze, and interpret data, is creating a hiring boom across North America. Five cities in particular are showing the most promise for Big Data professionals: San Francisco; McLean, Va.; Boston; St. Louis, and Toronto. The roles that companies in these cities are competing to fill include data scientist, data analyst, business intelligence professional, and data modeling/data modeler. Business intelligence and data analysis have been core enterprise disciplines for a long time, but they are in the forefront now that businesses are struggling with a significant increase in new data that's being collected.
Qualified Big Data professionals can be particularly difficult to find since many roles require a complicated blend of business, analytic, statistical, and computer skills — which is not something a candidate acquires overnight. In addition, clients are looking for people with a certain level of experience, who have worked in a Big Data environment. There aren't a lot of them in the market. As a result, companies often have to compromise and prioritize their wish list — technical expertise, industry experience, or quantitative statistical analysis skills, for experience — to find available Big Data candidates.
Looking at recruiting trends nationwide, there's not one industry that's doing the most Big Data hiring. Rather, the five top cities have in common a concentration of large enterprises across myriad industries. San Francisco, for instance, is home to large companies in the retail, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce sectors. McLean, Va. has both a strong commercial sector and government presence. Banking and bio/pharmaceutical industries helped put Boston on the Big Data hiring map. In St. Louis, universities and healthcare companies lead the Big Data hiring boom, followed by pharmaceutical and bioresearch firms that need to fill data analyst and scientist roles. Lastly, in Toronto, financial institutions are fueling a need for business intelligence professionals who can help organizations get a more precise and complete picture of the business and customers.
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