Where a data analyst can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a data analyst already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Data analysts import, inspect, clean, transform, validate, model, or interpret collections of data with regard to the business goals of the company. They ensure that the data sources and repositories provide consistent and reliable data. Data analysts use different algorithms and IT tools as demanded by the situation and the current data. They might prepare reports in the form of visualisations such as graphs, charts, and dashboards.
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Professionals 67 skills on file 12 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: data quality specialist, 67%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- ICT information and knowledge manager 50% covered · difficulty 58
- data entry supervisor 49% covered · difficulty 55.2
- data engineer 47% covered · difficulty 57
- data scientist 47% covered · difficulty 68.5
- computer vision engineer 43% covered · difficulty 66
- big data archive librarian 32% covered · difficulty 76.3
- artificial intelligence engineer 31% covered · difficulty 78.5
- database integrator 30% covered · difficulty 76.8
- database administrator 28% covered · difficulty 79
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A data analyst needs 36 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- collect ICT data information skills
- handle data samples information skills
- data ethics arts and humanities
- documentation types social sciences, journalism and information
- integrate ICT data working with computers
- normalise data working with computers
- implement data quality processes working with computers
- business analytics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- data visualisation software information and communication technologies (icts)
- perform data cleansing working with computers
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a data analyst does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- data scientist 80% covered · difficulty 32.3
- chief data officer 52% covered · difficulty 60.3
- data quality specialist 43% covered · difficulty 68.3
- computer vision engineer 36% covered · difficulty 74.3
- data entry clerk 33% covered · difficulty 75.8
- ICT information and knowledge manager 31% covered · difficulty 77.3
- market research analyst 30% covered · difficulty 77.9
- data entry supervisor 28% covered · difficulty 79.3
- data engineer 21% covered · difficulty 84.7
- monitoring and evaluation officer 17% covered · difficulty 87.8
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Data analyst is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a data analyst’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.