Business Analytics Careers and Job Market Opportunities

Opportunities for business analysts have exploded as major organizations have adopted data driven and technology focused approaches.

• Business analytics expertise is scarce - ranked second in a Computerworld survey on the most difficult skills to find. Global Institute reports that the United States could face a shortage of between 1,40,000 and 1,90,000 individuals who possess deep business analytic skills and an additional 1.5 million managers with the skill set to implement the results.
• Eighteen percent of the IT executive respondents to Computerworld’s “Forecast 2014 Survey” said they planned to hire for business analytic skills in the next 12 months.
• As demand for business analysts has continued to grow, their compensation has followed.Computerworld’s “Salary Survey 2013” listed an average total compensation for IT technology/business system analysts at $79,628, up 3.8 percent from 2012.

Walmart, Musigma, Amazon, Flipkart heavy users of data analytics, expressed interest in hiring to meet the need in the Computerworld survey.

Example of business analytics jobs include: BA Strategy Consultants, Business Intelligence and Performance Management Consultants, Advanced Analytics and Optimization Consultants, Enterprise Information and Management Consultants, Enterprise Content Management Consultants, among others.