What is like to work in... big data
2023, a productive year in a productive region
With the increase in the production of data by each of us (in the last two years it has increased by 90% worldwide) it has become essential to find the most innovative, effective and efficient way to store those and above all to analyze and use them.
Precisely for this reason in Bologna was founded the Big Data Association in order to address this important raw material and to interconnect and jointly exploit the knowledge, research and innovation potentials of high performance computing, big data analysis, deep and machine learning algorithms, high bandwidth networks, as future technological pillars of digital society, that will also require the development of new skills and technologies.
These new skills and technologies go hand in hand with the evolution and birth of new professional profiles.
Analyzing the data of Skills Intelligence Emilia-Romagna of the Big Data sector it is interesting to observe that, from October 2023 to September 2024, 15.970 online job advertisements were published, i.e. 2,9% of the total online advertisements offered in the regional territory, with an increase 7,0% compared to the previous year.
It immediately catches the eye that the most sought after professional profiles, considering the ESCO level 1 categories, belong to professionals (64,0%), followed by the distance by technicians and associate professionals (15,0%) and managers (11,3%).
The five most sought after professional profiles (ESCO level 4) of the Professionals (ESCO level 1)
Let’s delve into the most sought-after skills and profiles at specialized levels.
Taking into consideration only the group of Professionals (ESCO level 1), the top five most sought after professional profiles (ESCO level 4) are:
- software developers (23,3% of the total ads in ER);
- systems analysts (17,3%);
- management and organisation analysts (10,1%);
- engineering professionals (8,1%);
- advertising and marketing professionals (6,4%).
All of these profiles, apart from the advertising and marketing professionals, are of high or medium high difficulty of finding.
This means that in Emilia-Romagna there is a high need for these profiles in the Big Data sector but the profiles necessary to fill this gap are lacking.
In the province of Bologna, specifically, the most sought after professional profiles (ESCO level 4) are:
- software developers (968 in the last 12 months);
- systems analysts;
- management and organisation analysts;
- engineering professionals;
- database and network professionals not elsewhere classified.
So, if you have a professional profile that falls within those listed above, the province of Bologna could offer great opportunities to you.
If, however, your profile is not yet among the most sought after, but you would like to delve deeper into the Big Data industry, you can find in Emilia-Romagna many training opportunities, these are the best in the region:
Intelligenza Artificiale, Data Science e Big Data (University of Ferrara) – master degree;
UNU Institute on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Managing Human Habitat Change;
