Insights into Stata Job Market Trends and Statistics
Explore the latest data and trends in the Stata job market, including information on job postings, wage distributions, and mean advertised wages. Discover valuable insights from online job postings and worker profiles, shedding light on the demand for Stata skills in the US and Canada.
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THE MARKET FOR STATA USERS: EVIDENCE FROM ONLINE JOB POSTINGS P. WESLEY ROUTON 2023 CANADIAN STATA CONFERENCE AUGUST 4, 2023
DATA COLLECTION TOOL Lightcast This is a subscription service, web-based, online software tool used primarily by large employers, worker training institutions, and higher education administrators to study labor markets. Since 2010, it has been capturing online job postings and worker profiles daily, from every known relevant website, and maintains those data as internal samples. Example job posting websites: Indeed.com, SimplyHired.com, & ZipRecruiter.com Example worker profile website: LinkedIn.com It removes duplicate job listings and worker profiles. Employers often advertise open jobs on multiple sites, for example. Like terms and phrases are categorized for better comparison (e.g., lead a team, leadership, take the lead, etc. are combined into Leadership as a job skill category). Lightcast users are not granted access to the samples. They may only query the tool to reveal some simple statistics under set parameters.
SAMPLES USED HERE There are 3 1. US/CAN online job postings that mention Stata as a skill & were first posted in 2022 ? = ??,??? 2. US/CAN online worker profiles that mention Stata & were created or updated in 2022 ? = ???,??? 3. US/CAN online job postings that mention Stata as a skill & were posted during 2010-22 ? = ???,??? (includes sample #1; used for trend analysis) Not all job listings advertise the job s wage, so wage statistic n s are smaller but reported on the relevant slides. For sample 3, not all reported time trends extend as far back as 2010 (n issues?).
AVAILABLE STATISTICS Here s what Lightcast will report Job listing samples Time trends for the count of new job listings Wage distributions & mean wage time trends Minimum education & experience distributions Top 50 lists (with percent frequencies) for employers, cities, job titles, & requisite job skills Worker profile samples Top 50 lists (with percent frequencies) for cities, employers, job titles, schools, degree programs, & skills
NEW STATA JOBS POSTED ONLINE (MONTHLY DATA, US/CAN, 2018-22)
WAGE DISTRIBUTION OF STATA JOBS(2022, ? = 3,303, US/CAN, 2022 USD)
TOP 20 JOB TITLES FOR STATA JOBS (2022, US/CAN) Rank (listings) Job title 2022 listings 477 473 383 303 255 224 211 126 107 104 89 84 83 81 76 75 69 66 61 58 % of listings 3.8 3.7 3.0 2.4 2.0 1.8 1.7 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 Median posting duration (days) 28 25 32 25 32 26 29 29 28 30 35 30 25 32 31 17 34 19 17 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Biostatistician Data scientist Data analyst Research associate Research scientist Research assistant Research analyst Research data analyst Economist Epidemiologist Quantitative researcher Statistician Postdoctoral fellow Public sector consultant Researcher Research specialist Data manager Data analytics manager Data analytics developer Social science research analyst Slowest search Tie for fastest Tie for fastest
TOP 20 JOB TITLES FOR STATA USERS (2022, US/CAN) Rank Job title 2022 profiles 2,198 1,969 1,414 1,111 1,107 1,076 1,021 932 870 822 811 785 691 684 630 594 582 580 558 557 % of profiles 2.03 1.82 1.31 1.03 1.02 0.99 0.94 0.86 0.80 0.76 0.75 0.73 0.64 0.63 0.58 0.55 0.54 0.54 0.52 0.51 Data scientist Assistant professor Associate Economist Data analyst Research assistant Associate professor Software engineer Consultant 10 Research associate 11 Product manager 12 Vice president 13 Analyst 14 Financial analyst 15 Founder 16 Research analyst 17 Labor economist 18 Professor 19 Chief executive officer 20 Director 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
TOP 20 DEGREES FOR STATA USERS (2022, US/CAN) Rank Program 1 Economics 2 Business Admin. (Management or Operations) 3 Political Science or Government 4 Mathematics 5 Public Policy Analysis 6 Philosophy 7 Finance 8 Ecology 9 Psychology 10 International Relations 11 Statistics 12 Biology 13 Sociology 14 Business Admin. (General) 15 Public Health 16 Education 17 Medicine 18 Legal Studies 19 Public Administration 20 Computer Science Profiles 51,481 47.56 10,764 8,727 7,308 7,240 6,409 5,687 4,362 4,043 3,952 3,606 3,486 3,461 3,397 3,328 2,712 2,541 2,506 2,486 1,935 % 9.95 8.06 6.75 6.69 5.92 5.25 4.03 3.74 3.65 3.33 3.22 3.20 3.14 3.07 2.51 2.35 2.32 2.30 1.79
TOP 20 QUALIFICATIONS FOR STATA JOBS (2022, US/CAN) Rank Qualification (certification, clearance, or specific degree) 1 Security clearance 2 Master of Business Administration (MBA) 3 Secret clearance 4 Chartered Financial Analyst 5 Certified Financial Risk Management 6 Top Secret-Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI Clearance) 7 SAS certification 8 Doctor of Public Health 9 Certified Public Accountant (CPA) 10 Basic Life Support (BLS) certification 11 Project Management Professional certification 12 Board Certified/Board Eligible 13 Top secret clearance 14 Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification 15 Certified Reliability Engineer 16 Nurse Practitioner (APRN-CNP) 17 Enterprise Desktop Administrator (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) 18 Microsoft Certified Professional 19 Certified Loss Control Specialist 20 Certified Software Tester (CSTE) Listings 342 325 149 116 90 75 71 69 47 41 35 19 19 17 16 15 14 14 13 12 % 2.70 2.57 1.18 0.92 0.71 0.59 0.56 0.54 0.37 0.32 0.28 0.15 0.15 0.13 0.13 0.12 0.11 0.11 0.10 0.09
TOP 20 OTHER SOFTWARE SKILLS FOR STATA JOBS(2022, US/CAN) Rank Skill 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Microsoft Office 11 MATLAB 12 Microsoft Access 13 Microsoft Word 14 ArcGIS 15 Qualtrics 16 NVivo 17 Microsoft Outlook 18 "Geographic information systems" 19 Amazon Web Services 20 Apache Hadoop Postings (%) Profiles (%) Skill gap (%) R SAS SPSS Python SQL Microsoft Excel "Statistical software" Tableau Microsoft PowerPoint 80.8 66.1 44.6 41.6 37.3 28.9 26.1 23.4 15.7 14.4 13.9 9.5 5.1 4.9 4.6 4.4 4.4 4.0 3.8 3.6 29.8 22.1 25.7 17.6 18.0 53.9 2.8 9.1 38.7 50.7 13.2 8.1 31.5 5.2 1.7 1.3 4.4 4.6 1.7 1.3 50.9 44.0 18.9 24.1 19.2 -25.0 23.3 14.3 -23.0 -36.3 0.7 1.4 -26.4 -0.3 3.0 3.2 0.0 -0.5 2.1 2.3
TOP 20 NON-SOFTWARE SKILLS FOR STATA JOBS (2022, US/CAN) Rank Skill 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Leadership 11 Data management 12 Detail orientation 13 Mathematics 14 Data visualization 15 Computer science 16 Problem solving 17 Planning 18 Data science 19 Social science 20 Innovation Postings (%) Profiles (%) Skill gap (%) Research Data analysis Communication (general) Writing Giving presentations Statistics Economics Management Data collection 77.5 56.8 52.6 43.5 42.2 39.8 36.3 34.4 29.4 24.7 24.0 24.0 23.6 23.1 21.5 21.4 20.1 19.5 18.9 16.4 83.6 67.1 22.5 17.4 15.8 28.5 38.7 31.9 11.5 34.3 5.9 1.2 7.6 6.4 1.5 5.7 11.4 9.6 3.0 9.8 -6.0 -10.4 30.1 26.1 26.3 11.3 -2.4 2.6 17.9 -9.6 18.1 22.7 16.0 16.8 20.0 15.7 8.7 9.9 15.9 6.6
CONCLUSIONS Primary findings Stata jobs are on the rise, with over 1,000 new postings each month. About 85% of these jobs pay above-average wages, with wages trending upwards. At least 87% of these jobs require a college degree, often a graduate degree. About 68% of these jobs require 3 years of experience or less (good for entry level candidates). The variety of jobs is large, with the Top 20 most common comprising only 29.1% of the total. Slightly under half of Stata users (~48%) have an economics degree. Jobs that use Stata rarely require certifications, clearances, or specificdegrees. ~81% of job listings that mention Stata also mention R, this also having the largest software skill gap among Stata users. 66% mention SAS. Research is the most sought after non-software skill by employers of Stata users. Communication skills have the largest estimated non-software skill gap for Stata users.
