Technology
Data Analyst
Turns raw data into decisions the rest of the business can act on.
About the work
Data analysts clean, model and interpret data, build dashboards and answer the questions leaders actually need answered.
A day in the life
Writing SQL against the warehouse, cleaning a messy dataset, building a dashboard, presenting findings to a business team.
How people get in
Graduate degree in any quantitative subject plus SQL, Excel and a visualisation tool; certifications carry real weight here.
Core skills
- SQL
- Statistics
- Visualisation
- Excel
- Business sense