What technical talent is the most expensive 21st century? Data Analyst!

When Kelly Halfin decided to take a job in the U.S., High-tech companies in the United States looked to the hot free players as a favourite.

In Belgium, five American companies lined up to sign her, hoping she would lead the company's data analysis team. She chose Livestream, the company's head of business intelligence, and used data analysis techniques to help make product decisions based on New York's live video (live-events) website.

"It may surprise a company to enter a new field, but it is not surprising that a company has focused on (large) data." "Halfin said. She is 26 years old and has 3 years of experience in data analysis.

Data analysts are now as important as top engineers and designers. Headhunters say analysts are more important. A recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute says data analysis is "the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity". 140 proof, a social technology firm, argues that data analysts are important to the relationship between information--like, follow and other people and goods, products, and brands that are in excess of 250 billion and are still growing at a rate of 2 billion a day. "There's no time to be more of a data analyst than it is now," John Manoogian III said. He is a partner and CTO of 140 proof, a group known for its keen quantitative analysis. "Every company wants to find clues about what customers like and what they want from their own data, but these are very professional data analysis professionals to do." ”

This is why thousands of of thousands of data analysts like Halfin have been hotly contested by headhunters.

Jim Zimmermann, director of the online education and training company SkillSoft, said the size of the data analysis field had "exploded" in the past 18 months, but faced a shortage of talent because the math skills needed for the job were not enough for college graduates in general. Zimmermann said that because of the lack of data analysis talent, these companies "were forced to train online in the way ... Develop your own data analyst. ”

Indeed.com's data suggest that analysts are paying handsomely, whether in San Francisco (104,000 dollars a yearly average), New York (102,000) or Chicago (86,000). Stencils hired said the average salary was 74,000. There are 18,000 job opportunities associated with large data analysis in the recruitment website glassdoor.com.

Of course, the demand for other technical jobs is strong: engineers, designers, white-hat hackers (ethical hackers) and (mobile) application developers. Job Site dice.com has 84,000 technical jobs in North America, up 2% from a year earlier. Last year, the fastest-growing job demand was iphone development (78%), Cloud Computing (68%), mobile apps (42%) and Android Development (42%). The demand for High-tech talent is expected to increase by 2020, in line with the demand for higher-tech graduates in science and technology published by the U.S. Department of Labor (19%--). Indeed.com says the annual salary is quite impressive, averaging 88,000 dollars.

Video game maker EA hopes to increase the number of 5,000 employees in the U.S., China and India by 2020 to participate in game production, data management and business activities. EA currently has 9,000 employees.

Even manufacturing is lookout. CareerBuilder and Demand portal data show that today's manufacturing (High-tech technology talent) has reached 170,000 people, compared to two years ago. Among them, programmers, mechanics and CAD experts demand the most exuberant.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)