Data Scientist

Skilled developers, data science and security professionals remain in high demand, putting increased pressure on organizations to offer the benefits, culture and work opportunities that will keep them on board.

Organizations are struggling to fill critical IT, analytics and security jobs, especially in the advanced skills and management ranks. The job is made harder by job seekers that only want consultant roles.

CIOs are now pulling in quarter-million dollar paychecks, while the top salaries start at $150,000 and are all geared toward management roles.

Other high-demand roles include application programmers, business system analysts and database administrators.

Britain’s largest insurer is benefiting from an expanding middle class and growing insurance coverage in Asia, where it gets about a third of its earnings.

It's crucial that insurers develop clear career-path options for these valuable staff, because there will be lots of competition for the skills.

Software and application developers were cited as the number one most in-demand job role by employers last month, according to the latest BLS numbers.

Business users can more easily learn to use and benefit from modern analytics and business intelligence tools, enabling them to take the lead role in this area by 2019, says Gartner.

Moves from Allstate units Answer Financial and Arity, as well as MassMutual, illustrate increasing value of analytics expertise outside core insurance products.

Several top colleges and universities are offering courses and concentrations in applying data to the sector.