MADE Big Data Academy by Mail.ru Group and the online recruiting platform hh.ru have compiled profiles of Russian experts in data analytics and machine learning.
- In 2019, there were 9.6 times more job vacancies in data analytics, and 7.2 times more vacancies in machine learning than in 2015.
- The most popular skill is Python. It is required in 45% of data science vacancies and in half (51%) of vacancies in machine learning.
- Employers want data scientists to know SQL (23%), be proficient in data mining (19%), mathematical statistics (11%), and know how to work with big data (10%).
- More than half (65%) of vacancies in data analytics and exactly half of vacancies in machine learning are in Moscow. Saint Petersburg is in the second place - 15% of vacancies in data analytics and 18% of vacancies in machine learning.