A quick analysis on Data Science job-posts on SEEK.co.nz

Being inspired by the article written by Shareef Shaik on Data Science related jobs in India, I was curious about what Data Science jobs that New Zealand recruiters are looking for recently.

A small weekend project starts with keyword 'data scientists' being searched through the most popular job-seeking website in New Zealand - seek.co.nz. Perhaps due to the negative impact of Covid-19 which has caused many difficulties in the world economics in general and in New Zealand particularly, there are only 89 job-posts on Data scientist keyword on the website at the moment of being searched (22 Aug 2020).

First, I have used Chrome web-scraper extension tool to collect selected information

After collecting raw data, I quickly cleaned all the null spaces and then analysed using Excel pivot-tables

Here are some quick findings:

1. ‘Data engineer’ is the most wanted and ‘Senior professionals’ are more needed.

2. More local companies are looking for Data scientists vs. Big MNCs

3. ICT and Government are the top 2 sectors

4. North Island is totally dominant with Auckland and Wellington take almost 2/3 of the vacancies. I prefer to live and work in my lovely Christchurch, the City of Gardens, but who knows the future?

5. Highlighted skills required: research, programming, data driven and team-work. Programming language: Python, SQL, Scala and being able to use Spark to solve large-scale business-related matters.

This is a very interesting exercise to reflect what I have learned from the current Master of Applied Data Science at the University of Canterbury. This tiny research can be extended to other jobs such as 'Data Analyst', 'Business Analyst' or 'Insight specialist' to have a bigger picture.

To sum up, I have to admit that learning from doing is the shortest way to acquire knowledge, as well as strengthening one's passion in that specific topic. In this case, I feel more engaged with Data Science and be more confident about how that sound-sophisticated subject can be applied to provide actionable insights in any aspects of life.

THINK BIG - START SMALL!

With love,

Benjamin