In the four years between 2011 and 2014, China's big data was in its infancy, with an annual growth of more than 20%. in 2015, the big data market size has reached 9.89 billion yuan. the growth rate in 2016 reached 45%, more than 16 billion yuan. It is expected that in 2020, China's big data market size will exceed 800 billion yuan, and is expected to become the world's first big country of data resources. However, the low degree of data openness, weak technology, lack of talent, industry application is not deep, etc. are all urgent problems in the development of the industry.
According to the "2016 China's Hottest Jobs Talent Report" released by Collingwood, there are six categories of popular jobs that are currently in short supply, with varying degrees of scarcity, among which the supply index of data analysis talent is the lowest, at 0.05, which is a high degree of scarcity.
The current priority is to solve the bottleneck of big data talent, relevant surveys show that the next 3-5 years, big data talent gap reached as many as 1.5 million. At the same time, the standards for selecting talent in the big data industry are constantly changing. Initially, the demand for big data talent is mainly focused on ETL research and development, system architecture development, data warehouse research and other hardware-oriented areas, with IT, computer background of the majority of talents. With the development of big data to the extension of various vertical fields, the demand for statistics, mathematics professionals, data analysis, data mining, artificial intelligence and other biased software areas has increased.