Data Scientist Vs Web Developer: Which is Better

Bharathiraja
Ampersand Academy
Published in
5 min readMar 4, 2021

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Complete Guide for Choosing Between Data Scientist and Web Developer

For the past few years, Data Science is a trending technology in the industry. Many companies implemented data science concepts to produce AI products. Data Science is a hot job among many people. Many developers are planning to switch to a Data Science job. You can check at Udemy, or any other online learning platform, Data Science courses are the most sold course.

In this article, we are going to see the comparison between data scientist job and web developer job using three parameters.

  1. Salary
  2. Job Opportunity
  3. Learning Curve

It is not a debate. I just sharing my opinion. You can choose your career based on what suits you best( You have so many job opportunities in the IT field, not only data science and web development).

Salary:

Data Scientist:

If you look at the salary perspective, obviously the data scientist is paid higher than the web developer. Why because It is a trending job. So the salary will be high at the beginner level. Look at the below diagram, which is taken from the glassdoor.

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Bharathiraja
Ampersand Academy

AWS | DevOps | Kubernetes | Terraform| Angular | Deep&Machine Learning, Ionic, Full Stack Developer. Learn more at https://github.com/bharathirajatut