Mathematicians Top List of Hottest Job Titles Yet Again | Data - mDice Insights

Mathematicians and data engineers remain some of the hottest job titles among employers, according to a new breakdown of data from Burning Glass’s NOVA platform, which analyzes millions of active job postings.  

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That shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone who monitors NOVA’s data; mathematicians placed in the top spot last month, too, followed by data engineers and actuaries. That job postings for mathematicians grew 73 percent in September—on top of 80.6 percent in August—just shows that companies are really, really hungry for people who can crunch tons of data.

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Within tech, mathematicians can’t just get by with a good grasp of the numbers; they often must know their way around software packages specific to their particular discipline. For example, those who work with business intelligence and so-called “Big Data” must often have working knowledge of Hadoop, containers, and Kubernetes. Meanwhile, those who work for popular websites must know how to crunch numbers via Google Analytics and other monitoring platforms.
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Source: mDice Insights