Data science is a growing career field because everyone is collecting data on pretty much everything all the time. Anyone who has access to data relevant to your job, your organization, or its processes, services, and business conditions, can stand out by being able to analyze data, discover insights, and create compelling visualizations to explain them. Project managers, business analysts, experts for any domain of knowledge, researchers, healthcare specialists, engineers, and anyone working in any field to optimize any process or service can show their work and make their points more effectively by visualizing the data that's informing their decisions and recommendations.

While these skills can help in any career, data analysis and data visualization skills also open up several dedicated data science career paths. In fact, Fortune reports that for Gen Z, data science jobs are their top pick and that the number of data science jobs will grow by 22% by 2030. This Is Statistics lists Data Scientist as a top job for 2022, not only in terms of salary but also the best work-life balance. We think it so important we’ve created a page that shows how these skills benefit your career and organization and how to uplevel your data science skills.

What jobs are available? What are the responsibilities? How much do they pay? In the following infographic, we cover 12 data science job roles. Enjoy!

*Updated April 2024