Data Salary Guide 2025

Introduction

Approximately 19% of Data Professionals changed job in 2024 which is down marginally from 21% in 2023, and still represents an extremely buoyant market and underscores the importance of Data to businesses.

Advanced technologies – AL, ML, Edge computing and IoT will continue transforming the data analysis landscape and will bring more responsibilities for the analysts such as analysis of human behaviour, predicting trends through machine learning algorithms and leveraging interpretation techniques for better visualisation.

In the short term we expect continued demand for AI Automation skills. As AI and ML further integrates into data analytics, everything from data preparation to modelling and deployment will become more automated.

The need for AIOps experts will continue to grow in 2025, as the shift to AI for monitoring systems, improving operational efficiency, and predicting potential system failures expands.

Similarly, the demand for talent with MLOps skills for Scalable AI with continue to grow. MLOps will continue to mature, enabling business to more efficiently deploy, monitor, and scale ML models in a production environment.

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