The Most In-Demand Tech Skills for Data Scientists

In fall of 2018 I analyzed the most in-demand skills and technologies for data scientists. That article resonated with folks. It has over 11,000 claps on Medium, was translated into several languages, and was the most popular story on KD Nuggets for November 2018.

A little over a year has passed. Let’s see what’s new. 🎉

By the end of this article you’ll know which technologies are becoming more popular with employers and which are becoming less popular.

In my original 2018 article I looked at demand for general skills such as statistics and communication. I also looked at demand for technologies such as Python and R. Software technologies change much faster than demand for general skills, so I include only technologies in this updated analysis.

I searched SimplyHired, Indeed, Monster, and LinkedIn to see which keywords appeared with “Data Scientist” in job listings in the United States. This time I decided to write the code to scrape the job listings instead of searching by hand. This endeavor proved fruitful for SimplyHired, Indeed, and Monster. I was able to use the Requests and Beautiful Soup Python libraries. You can see the Jupyter notebook with the code for the scraping and analysis at my GitHub repo.