Data Analyst newsletter, April 2023

Hi everyone, happy April Fools'

No pranks around here, but hopefully you'll still find this edition April edition insightful.

There's now 601 of you currently subscribed to the newsletter, and I can't thank you enough for your support and for joining on the journey.

DataAnalyst.com has now been live for just over three months, and we've published over 950 hand curated data analyst jobs onto the site - all of them including a salary range.

Boring site stats: In March, we've seen steady traffic with just over 3,000 unique visitors, 15,000 page-views and we've been able to register approximately 2,900 data analyst applications being started from the site!

If you've applied to a job and are in the interview process, wishing you good luck and please let me know how it goes!

Now, there are 4 things I'd like to share with you today.

1. March data analyst job market insights
2. Day in the Life of a Data Analyst
3. Company directory
4. Our first testimonial

Hope you enjoy the read, and as always - please do share your ideas, thoughts and/or if you run across more bugs on the site.

Thank you,

Alex

1. March 2023 - Data Analyst job Market Insights

As the amount of job opportunities on the site grows, we're utilising the data available to bringing you the third (March) edition of Market Insights - a deep dive into the data analyst job market, where we can have a look at the job openings and provide you all with insights on the latest hiring trends for the past month in the US and UK markets.

Which industries are hiring the most? Are we seeing any salary increases? And what about the remote working trend?

Insights for the United States data analyst job market.

2. Day in the Life of a Data Analyst

What does a data analyst do? How can I become a data analyst? How does a data analyst career look like?

Those are some of the most frequent questions being asked across the web, so we'll be bringing you interviews with current data analysts, sharing their experience, thoughts and advice!

We have shared the first interview on the 9th March, and it was with Eddie.

Eddie spoke about his career journey at a pharma/biotech company, where he started as Clinical Data Associate, grew into an analyst role, and now is in a Data Manager position.

My key insight from the interview was his advice to someone trying to get into the industry: "Don't overestimate your competition. Many people just assume everyone else is an expert. They're not! I've seen people in high level data roles that are only just starting to learn how to program."

Highly recommend reading the full interview.

For our next interview, we'll be speaking with Elijah, who's a Data Analyst at Humana, and we'll be aiming to publish it on Thursday, April 13th.

3. Company directory

We've added a new page on site, where you can browse or search our list of companies who are currently looking to expand their team and have data analyst jobs available.

You can search for a specific company (i.e Apple, Nike), or keywords (i.e healthcare, logistics), our intelligent search can find it all!

Warning, it also looks for broad results in company descriptions, so you may come across a match or two that won't make much sense, but hey, experiments

4. Our first positive testimonial, from Hydra.so

Ending this month on a positive note, I'm super excited to share the news that over the last month we've been cooperating with Delia from Hydra.so (an alternative to Snowflake that's fast, simple to use, and open source) to help them build out their data team.

While those roles were not necessarily purely data analyst ones, the data analysis skills are transferable in the sense where one can also develop their career as data engineer or data solutions architect, particularly for those with more experience under their belt.  

Being able to bring qualified candidates is extremely important for us, and this was a great first step in showcasing our authority in the data analyst hiring space.

We will build on this experience, and continue developing trusted partnerships with organisations, to bring more expert interviews, and data analyst job opportunities on our site, for all of you to learn from and explore.