Chief information officers and other tech recruiters at U.S. firms battling over coveted analytics workers may soon get a reprieve, according to a report by Bain & Co. The global supply of information-technology professionals with advanced analytics skills is projected to double between late 2018 and late 2020 to one million workers, led by jobseekers in India, the report said. “The pivot toward this area of skill development has been astounding,” said Chris Brahm, head of Bain’s global advanced analytics practice. “We saw the market for mid- to high-end analytics jobs surpassing the 300,000 mark globally at the end of 2018,” said Todd Thibodeaux, CompTIA’s president and chief executive. As much as 75% of advanced analytics work done by third parties “is being done remotely and is fairly portable globally,” he added.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 30, 2019 22:30 UTC