September, 2018
AI & Big Data:Talent Landscape & assessment
Zinnov Point of View
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There is a huge demand for Global AI & Big Data talent, and its set to impact global economies, markets and industries
1.a
~650,000
~265,000
~120,000
AI & Big Data/ Analytics Directly Relevant Talent
Directly Relevant Talent in G500 companies
Directly Relevant Talent in ITeS Service Providers (SPs)
Job openings across G500, Start-ups and SPs
Global AI & Big Data Talent pool Demand
Directly Relevant Talent in Start-ups
~515,000
~1.2 Mn
~270,000
Total Employed AI & BD/A talent pool
G500 companies
Global Start-Ups
Service Providers
Unmet AI & BD/A talent demand in
2018
Global Demand in 2018
1
2
Note: DRAUP Methodology, Numbers of graduating students are estimates and will vary by year
Note: Other engineering skills include Electronics, Electrical, communication, mechanical and engineering skills employed across Semiconductors, Telecommunication, IT & computer peripheral industry
*G500 Companies (Top 500 product organization by R&D spend)
Directly Relevant Talent Pool
Open Position Analysis
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DRAUP Analysis Track: One of the key components of our methodology involves analysis of installed Big Data and AI workforce employed in G500* organizations, Start-ups and Service Providers
Source: DRAUP Methodology
Demand Side: Analysis Tracks
Skill Maturity Analysis
Job progression and
maturity assessment
Workloads
G500* Companies1.a
Talent distribution by Geo
Skill characteristics
Start-Up1.b Service Providers1.c
Installed Talent Pool
Skill Distribution by
Geography
Open job positions for bigdata analytics & DS
*G500 Companies (Top 500 R&D spenders)
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Unique job roles : 7 Primary Skills and job roles were shortlisted and analysed within Big Data & Data Science engineering
Unique Roles Titles Technical or Conceptual Skills Description
Note : DRAUP’s proprietary talent module was used to analyse jobs by job roles and skill type
Analyst - Data Management
Maintains and manages the database;
Responsible for performing quality checks on
datasets; Ensures correct data schema and
syntax; Filters and cleans data"
Database Analyst, Data Management Analyst, Database Developer, Database Administrator
1.
Data Architect
Designs and implementing the technical
architecture; Defines and designs data
systems, services and technology solutions;
Implements and administers data
infrastructure
Data Architect, Tech Lead Data Platform, Tech Lead Data Modelling
2.
Big Data / Hadoop Administrator
Supports the Hadoop infrastructure and ensures
availability; Responsible for node-cluster
configuration, deployment and capacity planning;
Monitors and maintains clusters and tunes
performance; Responsible for administering
YARN and providing support for running and
monitoring MapReduce jobs
Creates data pipelines to move and transform data;
Responsible for performing transformations to
aggregate disparate data volumes into data lakes;
Manages data from different sources; Provides
support, maintenance, monitoring and
troubleshooting for data warehouse processes
Data Warehouse Engineer
Data Engineer, Data Warehouse Engineer, Data Warehousing Specialist, Data Developer, Hadoop Developer, Spark Developer, Hadoop Engineer, Spark Engineer, Scala Engineer, Scala Developer
Hadoop Administrator, Data Administrator, Big Data DevOps Engineer, Hadoop Platform Engineer
3.Database
Engineering
apache, azure, distribute systems,
flume, google cloud, gradle,
integrations, java j2ee,
database architecture, relational
databases, data cleaning, data
manipulation, tableau, power bi,
excel
hadoop, flume, YARN, mongodb,
dynamodb, mapreduce, devops,
hbase, hdfs, AWS
hbase, amazon web service,
kafka, spark, cassandra,
dynamodb, flume, gradle, graph,
hadoop, jmeter, json
Skill Definitions
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Unique job roles : 7 Primary Skills and job roles were shortlisted and analysed within Big Data & Data Science engineering
Develops algorithms for conversational
interfaces such as chatbots; Identifies the
modes by which speech can be converted to
data; Develops conversational interfaces
using bot frameworks and platforms
Chatbot Developer, Chatbot Engineer, Conversational UI Specialist, Speech Scientist, Speech Researcher, Speech Algorithm Scientist, Speech Algorithm Engineer, Speech Algorithm Researcher, Machine Learning Engineer - Speech, Machine Learning Scientist - Speech, AI Engineer -Speech, AI Researcher - Speech, Machine Learning Engineer - Conversation, Machine Learning Scientist - Conversation, AI Engineer -Conversation, AI Researcher - Conversation
Applied Data Scientist - Speech
Note : DRAUP’s proprietary talent module was used to analyse jobs by job roles and skill type
Applied Data Scientist - Vision
Computer Vision Scientist, Computer Vision Engineer, Algorithm Engineer - Computer Vision, Computer Vision Engineer, ADAS Engineer, Vision Engineer, Perception Engineer, Deep Learning Scientist, Deep Learning Engineer
Develops algorithms for vision-based
applications such as image or object
recognition applications; Designs vision
algorithms for mapping, localization, scene
analysis, object detection and classification;
Develops a perception based solution
integrating multiple sensing devices within
the size, weight and power (SWaP)
5.Applied AI
Analyses and interprets data (both structured
and unstructured) and generates prescriptive
and predictive insights; Responsible for
generating insights from raw data using
inferential and predictive models; Responsible
for developing new analytical models for the
organization
Data Scientist, Applied Scientist, Data Researcher, Applied Researcher, Data Modeling Scientist, Data Modeling Specialist, Data Modeling Engineer, Data Mining Scientist, Data Mining Specialist, Data Mining Specialist, Algorithm Scientist, Algorithm Engineer, Algorithm Specialist, Machine Learning Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Machine Learning Researcher, NLP Scientist, NLP Researcher, NLP Engineer
Data Scientist4.
Unique Roles Titles Technical or Conceptual Skills Description
OpenCV, Tensorflow, Pandas, 3D
Modelling, Adaptive Thresholding,
Caffe, Convolutional Neural Network
Dialogflow, API.ai, Wit.ai, Microsoft
Bot Framework, Bayes Rule,
Bidirectional RNN, Chomsky
Hierarchy
Classification, clustering, decision trees,
dimensionality reduction, logistic
regression, SVM, natural language
process, predictive analytics,
Skill Definitions
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AI & Big Data talent in US, China and Israel is predominantly employed by US based Tech Giants; Talent in Canada and UK is largely employed by start-ups; India has high talent pool installed among Service Providers
5%
9%
3%
52%
5%
0%
48%
60%
22%
20%
61%
21%
48%
32%
74%
28%
34%
79%
Canada
UK
China
India
US
Israel
G500 Companies
(Top 500 R&D spenders)
Start-Ups Companies
(0>Headcount>5000)Service Providers
295,000
152,000
67,000
28,000
18,000
AI & Big Data Installed Talent 2018 split by company type Insights
AI & Big Data talent in US is predominantly split between large companies and start-ups. Companies such asGoogle, Microsoft, Facebook IBM, etc. have large installed talent bases for AI & Big Data in US, led by Googlewith most of the Big Data Analytics work done out of US. Notable small and medium companies have come upsuch as Splunk, Cloudera, MongoDB who are becoming key infrastructure developers.
India’s Big Data talent is predominantly employed in large service provider companies, involved in solutions deployment and support services (IBM, Infosys, TCS etc..). Amazon, Microsoft and IBM Watson have a significant AI talent pool. Notable medium and small companies such as InMobi, Musigma use Big Data Analytics for Performance tracking of Mobile Ads and are key employers for analytics talent
China’s AI & Big Data talent is employed predominantly in large companies, both local and MNCs, such as Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, EBay, Amazon etc.. Engineering teams with-in Deep learning start-ups such as i-CarbonX, SenseTime, Face++ have rapidly scaled during last 2 years
AI & Big Data talent in UK is significantly available in Start-ups largely focussed on industry applications. Tech giants such as Google (DeepMind), IBM(Watson healthcare) and Microsoft (Big Data Analytics for Bing and Skype) etc. large scale in-house engineering team grown through acquihires
Canada’s AI & Big Data talent pool has a large presence in start-ups and niche mid-sized companies such as Algolux, Instaclick (webpage and ad analytics). Large companies also employ a significant portion of the AI & Big Data talent such as Microsoft (Healthcare AI), IBM Watson (big data banking and finance back-end solutions) and EA Sports (gaming analytics),
14,000
G500 Companies Start-ups Services
AI & Big Data talent is largely engaged by Start-ups such as BrainQ, Iguazio etc. and Tech giants such asMicrosoft, Samsung and Google. Automotive OEM’s such as GM and Ford have engineering focus onautonomous and connected driving.
Note : DRAUP Talent module Analysis as well as skill analysis from job portals
Demand Analysis
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Directly relevant talent across G500 organizations: Tier-1 US locations have nearly ~44% of total employed AI & Big Data talent pool consolidated within Tech giants
27,000
Seattle Area
56,000
Bay Area
5,000
Boston
10,000
New York11,000
Israel
9,000
UK
9,000
France
6,000
Spain
6,000
Sao Paulo
15,000
Germany
26,500
Bangalore
22,000
Beijing
9,200
Tokyo
2,400
Singapore
6,500
Hyderabad
Netherlands
20,000Shanghai
Employed AI & Big Data talent across global G500 companies
Note: DRAUP G500 skills mapping modeler – 2017, 2018 Generic AI Talent pool not considered as there is noise in the data
~250KDirectly relevant AI & Big Data talent in G500
companies
35%of the 250K employees are working for
Tech Giants
~110KDirectly relevant AI & Big Data talent in US
G500 Companies Start-ups Services
950
Employed AI & Big Data Talent Pool
88
~120,000
~40,000~23,000
~4500 ~22,000~28,000
Start-up Talent Overview: Indian and Chinese AI & Big Data start-ups have attracted late stage investments from global VCs and thus have rapidly scaled their engineering teams in last 2 years
CAGR: 5%
CAGR: 3.5%CAGR:46%
CAGR: 30%CAGR: 14%
Western US UK India ChinaEastern US Israel
• Chinese Deep learning start-ups such as iCarbonX, Face++,
Sensetime have attracted large late stage investments from
global VCs during last 2 years
• Indian start-ups such as Netrdyne, niki.AI and FluidAI have
also raised mid staged rounds and have been ramping up their
engineering team size
G500 Companies Start-ups Services
~5,5002018Number of AI & Big
Data start-ups
270K2018Total Directly
relevant talent
CAGR: 3.5%
Massively scaled deep learning
Data cataloguing and cleaning
AI based consumer robotics start-up
Key AI & Big Data Start-ups across global locations
ML based threat detection
NLP API
ML for retail
ML based recruitment solution
ML for personalised healthcare
Vision based advanced assistance system
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module analysed 10,000+ start-ups globally to identify top AI & Big Data based start-ups
Employed AI & Big Data Talent Pool
2018
2016
~xxInstalled Talent
99
G500 Companies Start-ups Services
Global IT and Engineering Services giants have mature Big Data talent pool and have been upskilling employees to develop AI capability; Indian players hold up ~58% of total talent
Geo-Wise Talent Distribution across skills
• India accounts for more than 50%of the available talent in service providers.
• Service providers like TCS are
setting up CoE in collaboration with Intel to speed up adoption of AI.
• TCS and Infosys have developed their proprietary AI platforms to serve global customers
• Infosys provides mandatory training on Artificial Intelligence to new joiners.
• Tech Mahindra has tied up with Edxto reskill 117K employees in areas like Big Data, IoT, Machine Learning etc.
Big Data AI/ML
Directly relevant AI & Big
Data talent in India
~50K
~8K
Big Data AI/ML
Directly relevant AI & Big
Data talent in US & Canada
~9K~2K
Big Data AI/ML
Directly relevant AI & Big
Data talent in China
~2K
~0.5K
India
~58K
Total AI & Big Data directly relevant talent by delivery locations
~100K
US & Canada
~11K
China
~2.5K
Europe
~23K
Big Data AI/ML
Directly relevant AI & Big
Data talent in Europe
~19K
~3K
• Capgemini bagged the European Commission data infrastructure project.
• Insurance firm Direct Line Group appointed Capgemini for IT restructure.
• Atos has partnered with Google Cloud to create secure enterprise business solutions in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Hybrid Cloud, data analytics and the digital workplace.
• Atos and Siemens have committed 100M pounds for R&D in AI, Big Data, IoT and Cybersecurity.
• DXC Technology launched an Agile Process Automation (APA), which combines cloud and robotic process automation (RPA) with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance a company’s business processes.
• Cognizant has tied up with Goodwill University to impart training in Digital technologies and other IT courses.
• Avanade has tied up with Microsoft to create new AI-based solutions
• Avanade collaborated with Hortonworks to provide big data solutions to enterprises.
• Pactera launched an innovation outpost called Moonshot to lead global clients through the next era of digital products with a heavy emphasis on artificial intelligence, data and continuous software delivery paired with next generation human-centeredexperience design.
Note: Data curated by DRAUP engineering services deals database updated in April, 2018
Employed AI & Big Data Talent Pool
1010
23% 21% 19%24%
17% 20%
77% 79% 81%76%
83% 80%
India China UK Israel Canada US
ML
Big Data
~72,000 ~67,300 ~32,100 ~5,000 ~15,700 ~310,000
US, India, China and UK have the most number of job openings in AI & Big Data/Analytics
Top Recruiters
Job Titles
ML - Flipkart, Amazon, Accenture, Intel, Citi, AmazonBig Data - HP, HSBC, Citi, Accenture, Zebra Technologies, Lead Squared
ML - State street, Net ease, Google, Intel, HSBC, TeradataBig Data - Accenture, Intel, Baidu, Career International, NetEase, Michael Page, JD Group
ML - Data Scientist, Revolution Analytics, Test Architect, Research Scientist-Computer VisionBig Data - Applications Developer, Cloud Architect
ML - NLP Leader, Principal Software Engg, Chief Research ScientistBig Data - Data Management Engg, Test Automation Engg
ML - Hamham, Guardian Jobs, Amazon, Microsoft, Barclays, Hitachi, Expedia GroupBig Data - Burberry, Office of National Statistics, Olivier Bernard
ML - Senior data scientist, Full stack web develop, Data Analyst, Robotics EnggBig Data - Data Scientist, Data Development Officer
ML - Citi, Amazon, Google, Intel, General Motor, Nike, CiscoBig Data - Outbrain, Verac,
Outbrain, Kenshop, Midlink
ML - Full stack Developer, Software Engineer, System Team LeadBig Data - Business Research Analyst, Data Scientist
ML - Google, EY, Deloitte, Mark's, Synopsys, Uber, Capital OneBig Data - RBC, CIBC, Citi, Intact,
Newfound Recruiting
ML - Software Developer, Full stack Innovation Tech lead, Generalist Software developer, Data ScientistBig Data - Software Engineer
ML - JP Morgan, Intel Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, FacebookBig Data - IBM, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Amazon Home Depot, Mclane
Company, Ring Central, Sirius XM
ML - Software Engineer, Applied Scientist, Manager, Product Design Engineering, Algorithm EngineerBig Data - Senior Data Architect, Senior Technical Architect
AI & Big Data Analytics global job opening distribution~515,000
Global Un-met Demand
Note: Data curated from global job portals such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor etc.
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About 1 Million jobs are expected to be created in AI and Big Data/Analytics roles in 2021
0
1,00,000
2,00,000
3,00,000
4,00,000
5,00,000
6,00,000
2018 2019 2020 2021
AI Job Openings BD/A Job Openings
• Globally, Job Creation for AI & Big Data Analytics roles will reach 960K in 2021 with an average CAGR of 23%
• India is expected to grow at a faster rate (~25%) compared to the rest of the world
• The Job Creation for Big Data/Analytics roles will grow at a much lower rate (~7%) compared with AI over the next 3 years
~415K
~100K
~450K
~510K
India Job Openings – 2018
Big Data / Analytics – 55.5K
Artificial Intelligence – 16.5K
India Job Openings – 2021
Big Data / Analytics – 68K
Artificial Intelligence – 74K
Job Openings Projection
Global Job Openings
Note: Data curated from global job portals such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor etc.
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Presence of heavyweights like IBM, GE, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. has helped create an AI/BD ecosystem in India. Amazon India, Walmart Labs have invested heavily on analysing Big Data sets generated by customer interactions acrossRetail, Seller Services and
leverage NLP algorithms to predict customer behaviour.
UK AI & Big Data talent is significantly engaged in large companies such as Google DeepMind group, IBM(Watson Health) and Microsoft (Big Data Analytics for Bing and Skype) etc.
Microsoft technical centre in Israel is working on Medical Imaging for predictive Eyecare.
Automotive OEM’s like Renault, Volkswagen partnering with Autonomous start-ups like Mobileye
MNCs such as GoogleDeepMind group, Microsoftand IBM Watson group havelarge scaled AI & Big Datalabs in Canada.Automotive OEMS such asFord, GM have set-up largeAI labs in Montreal andToronto to expandautonomous drivingresearch.
Majority of G500 organizations have employed Big Data talent across geographies; Computer Vision & NLP talent is employed majorly by tech giants
~43,000
AI and bigdata analytics Global G500 Talent distribution
Geo-Wise G500 Talent Distribution across skills
35%
42%
55%
41%
25%
16%
44%
20%
34%
7%10% 9% 8%
4% 4% 4% 5% 4%
11% 13% 11%
26%
15% 14%
22%16% 16%
31%34%
24% 23%
54%
64%
29%
56%
45%
16%
1% 1% 3% 3% 2% 1%3% 1%
West Coast East Coast Canada UK Germany Israel India China Singapore
Analyst-Data Management Data Architect Database Engineering Data Scientist Applied ML
~43,000 ~45,000~9,000 ~11,000~11,000~85,000 ~25,000 ~15,000 ~2,400
G500 Companies Start-ups Services
Traditional Hubs forEngineering for the TechGiants –Google, Amazon,Facebook, Apple andMicrosoft hold ~35% ofglobal G500 Big DataMachine learning to NLP &Computer vision talentDriverless Cars, Drones,Predictive medicine, CyberSecurity are the hot areas
China’s AI & Big Data Talent is employed predominantly in large companies, both local and MNCs, such as Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, EBay, Amazon etc. Baidu is investing heavily in Visionfor Autonomous Driving and fleet route optimization by analyzing Mn of vehicle datasets.
Skill Analysis
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module analysed jobs of ~2000 peer companies on the basis of skill type, salaries, talent pool, years of experience and employers
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Over 60% of the demand is distributed across Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics and BFSI industries
LEGEND
Cell Colour
Concentration of Role in the Industry
14,000
12,000
37,000
102,000
16,000
22,000
39,000
7,000
Global Headcount
Big Data / Hadoop Admin
Analyst -Data
Management
Data Warehouse Engineer
Analyst -Business
Intelligence
Data Scientist
Visualization Specialist
Data Architect
Analyst -Information Security
Applied Data
Scientist -Speech
Applied Data
Scientist -Vision
Data Steward
Automotive
Healthcare
BFSI
Enterprise Software
Semiconductor
Retail
Consumer Electronics
Industrial
Note: For each vertical Map has to be read left to right
<1% 1% to 10% 10% to 25% 25% to 40% >40%
Total: 250k
1414
Data Warehouse EngineerIT Admin Data Scientist
Marketing Programs Manager
Research & Consulting
Data Scientist
Statistician Data Scientist
DataScientist
Statistician
Algorithms Developer/Engineer
DataScientist
Machine learning specialist
Algorithms Developer/Engineer
DataScientist
Data Scientist Job Progression: Business Analyst and Algorithms Engineer are the key roles which have progressed into Data Scientist role
Data Scientist Job Progression Roadmap
Previous Role Current RolePast Role
Business/DataAnalyst 1
Business/DataAnalyst 1
DataScientist
~24,000 Data Scientist profile analysed
across 10 Tech Giants*
~85% profiles
~15% profiles
Tech Giants*: Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, IBM, SAP, Salesforce, Cisco
Data WarehouseEngineer
Skill Analysis
DataScientist
Analyst1: System Analyst, Financial Analyst, Risk Analyst, Operations Analyst, IT Analyst, Support Analyst , Actuarial Analyst
Statistician
Area/Operations Manager
1515
Labor repurposing is becoming crucial and in many cases the only viable strategy
Statisticians/ Actuaries
Quantitative/Risk Analysts
Data Engineers
Data ScientistML
Engi
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Core Network Engineer
3G and LTE RF Engineer
End-to-End 3G/4G Network Engg
4G/LTE RAN Engineer
5G
En
gin
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Systems Engineer
Data Centre Engineer
Cloud Security Engineer
IOT Security Engineer
IOT
Engi
nee
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Identify adjacent job roles with low degree of separations and upskill them
leveraging certification courses
Leverage expertise and skills of Veteran talent pool:
Numerous community colleges are offering specialized courses in new age
technologies
Community colleges offering Data Science Courses
UPSKILL EMPLOYEES LEVERAGE VETERAN TALENT POOL HIRE FROM COMMUNITY COLLEGES LEVERAGE WIDER GEOGRAPHIES
Information technology: Expertise Veterans offer: Advanced Training in analytics, information management, control systems and computing architectures
Healthcare Expertise Veterans offer: Up-to-date medical knowledge with extensive clinical experience
Engineering and ManufacturingExpertise Veterans offer: Education and training in mechanical, electrical and civil engineering, Distinctive project experience augmented by theoretical knowledge from schools
~11M employable Veteran talent pool is available in USA
Enterprises need to leverage Tier2 locations with high fresh talent pool
Top Emerging locations with high Fresh talent pool supply
Top Established locations with high Fresh talent pool supply
Los Angeles Baltimore
Minneapolis Tampa, Florida
Philadelphia Area Phoenix
San Diego Portland
Miami Raleigh Durham
Denver Columbus
Orlando Las Vegas
New York San Francisco
Chicago Houston
Boston Seattle
Washington DC Dallas
Austin Atlanta
Note : DRAUP’s proprietary talent module was used to analyse millennial moments across various citiesSource: Migration trends analysed using USA Census Data
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US: Employed Talent is consolidated across Tech giants and platform start-ups having large scale engineering labs focussed on cross industry application
2. Mature platform start-ups: Start-ups with
>100 Mn+ investment are concentrated in Bay Area with a focus on cross-functional industry platforms
1. Tech giants employ large scale AI/BD talent
pool concentrated in tier-1 locations~25,000 AI/BD engineers
employed
25 bn+AI/BD
Spend annually
100+Start-up Acquisitions
made globally
300+Platform start-ups
40%Deep Learning
20%NLP
10%Computer Vision
10%Robotics
GoogleFacebookAmazonApple
Microsoft
3. Mature University Ecosystem: MIT, NYU and
Stanford produce ~2000 fresh AI/ML talent pool
20+Tiet-1 Universities with PhD programmes in AI/Big Data
Facebook - NYU
Facebook hires NYU deep learning expert to run its AI lab
Amazon - UC Irvin
Amazon hires UC Irvine principal scientist to run its Deep learning AWS lab
Mature AI talent pool concentrated across Tech giants and Start-ups
Note : News articles, journals, university reports
Location Deep Dive : US
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Supply Drivers
Talent Quality Talent Scalability Cost Benefits
It has high quality Data science and AI talent
Average scalability due to average fresh
university talent supplyHigh talent cost due to
scarce AI talent
It is the emerging hub for AI & Big Data
analytics
High scalability fueled by researchers at local
universitiesHigh Talent cost for a
high talent quality
It has low AI talent and average Big data/
analytics talent
Average scalability due to average fresh
university talent supply
Low talent cost as most of the Dallas talents
are fresh talents
It has high DS/ Big data installed talent after
Bay area
High scalability options in Seattle due to
availability of university talent pool
Talent cost in Seattle is high due to intense
demand for ML expertise
It is an emerging locations for AI tech
companies
Average scalability due to average fresh
university talent supply
Low talent cost as most of Phoenix talents are
fresh talents
US: ~65% of AI & Big Data Talent in US is concentrated across Bay Area & Seattle; Central and Eastern region’s talent is largely spread across start-ups
Seattle
43%
57%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
63K+ Talent
22%
Others
14%
Bay Area
48%
52%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
110K+ Talent
39%
Phoenix
33%
67%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
9K+ Talent
3%
Dallas
29%
71%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
17K+ Talent
6%
Austin
60%
40%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
10K+ Talent
4%
Boston
24%
76%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
35K+ Talent
12%
~ 280,000AI/Big Data Talent
Bay Area
Boston
Dallas
Seattle
Phoenix
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module . We have analysed ~2,000 tech companies and ~10,000 start-ups.
Location Deep Dive : US
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Europe: Mature AI talent pool is employed by start-ups focussed in Fintech & Health-tech industries; Tech giants have made landmark acquisitions from University labs from their Europe HQ’d centres
2. High intensity of AI talent across start-ups focused on Industry Specific applications: Fintech, Health-tech and retail industries
1. High acquisition focus: US tech giants have been leveraging mature AI talent from start-ups
1000+Industry specific start-ups
40%Fintech
20%Health Tech
10%Manufacturing
Bolster tech Stack
3. Build in Europe, move to US to scale : Key start-ups move research labs to US for raising late stage rounds and expand customer base
30+Ai start-ups have set-up US and UK based research labs
InfiDo- Bay Area
Founded by Oxford graduates; Raised Series C and set-up bay area lab to expand its US business
Feedzai - NewYork
Founded n Portugal; launched in US and then in UK in 2016
Google - DeepMind, Dark Blue labs
Amazon -Angel.AI
Acqui-hire
Microsoft -Swift KeyBuild New Products
Mature AI talent pool concentrated across Start-ups and Universities
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module . We have analysed ~2,000 tech companies and ~10,000 start-ups.
Location Deep Dive : Europe
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Europe : Western Europe is the hotspot for AI & Big Data talent while Eastern Europe startup ecosystem is rapidly maturing
Supply Drivers
Talent Quality Talent Scalability# Cost Benefits
UK has high quality talent in big data
software and analytics
Low scalability due to small fresh university
talent supply
UK has among the highest talent cost for
the given talent quality
It is an emerging AI/Big data fresh
talent base
High scalability due to strong presence of young talent pool
Average talent cost as most of them are university talents
Has largest supply of AI/Big data talents after UK in Europe
High scalability due to high supply of fresh
university talents
High talent cost as the country is emerging to be an AI hub in Europe
Has limited supply of AI/Big data talents
Low scalability since AI/Big data based
courses are yet to rise
Low talent cost for the existing analytics/ ML
talent in the region
~ 120,000AI/Big Data Talent
Others
9%
UK
28%
72%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
32K+ Talent
27%
Germany
46%
54%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
31K+ Talent
27%
France
41%
59%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
23K+ Talent
19%
Eastern Europe
43%
67%Start-ups
Tech
Companies
21K+ Talent
18%
10K+ Talent
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Eastern Europe
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module . We have analysed ~2,000 tech companies and ~10,000 start-ups.
Location Deep Dive : Europe
2020
UK: United Kingdom’s AI & Big Data talent is largely employed by platform start-ups while tech giants have built their engineering teams by acquihiring from start-ups and universities
United Kingdom
~ 32,000Demand talent
$150,000Median Cost
United Kingdom
18%
Data Engineer
34%
Data Manager
29%
Data Scientist
17%
Data Architect
Headcount Distribution
(By Skills)1%
Applied AI
Key Employers Total Employable Talent
AI/Big Data start-ups
G500 companies 9.2K+
~ 480
AI/Big Data Universities 16
Top Verticals
23K+Total Number
Information Technology and Services, Fintech, HR Tech
Tech companies Start-ups
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module . We have analysed ~2,000 tech companies and ~10,000 start-ups.
Location Deep Dive : Europe
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UK : Tech giants employ majority of Data Science talent while Banking giants have large scale Data analyst teams working on digital transformation of front-end and back end operations
Data
Scientist
Database
Engineer
Applied
ML
Data
Architect
Analyst –
Data
Management
1000 63% 25% 1% 1% 10%
2500 21% 17% 0% 45%Lloyds has pledged to train 2.5m people, charities and small businesses in free digital skills by 2020 in a partnership with the UK government
1500 42% 8%Microsoft is using AI and Machine Learning to Discover a Cure for Cancer in it’s Cambridge UK Lab
500 21% 22% 0% 25% 32%
HSBC is planning to integrate the AI software of Quantexa, a UK-based start-up, to screen the vast amounts of data it holds on customers and their transactions against publicly available data, in the search for suspicious activity.
1000 30% 14% 48% 4%The Deepmind Applies Team is collaborating with clinicians in the UK’s National Health Service on delivering better care for conditions that affect millions of people worldwide.
AI & Big Data
Headcount
Top 5 tech companies AI & Big Data head count ~7000
Facebook has opened its new London office and said it will create 800 high-tech jobs in the UK over the next year
0.5% 16% 33.5%
17%
4%
Tech companies Start-ups
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module . We have analysed ~2,000 tech companies and ~10,000 start-ups.
Location Deep Dive : Europe
2222
Start-Ups: Major employers are Fintech and Health-Tech startups and attract talent from large banking giants
Finance
NLP
Healthcare
Top Verticals/Tech focus
Key Start-ups Key Job profiles Previous Experience
Retail
Workloads/ Skills
• Design scalable, performance algorithms to provide better and more intelligent user experiences
Senior Data Scientist
• Modelling and verification of complex video processes in C++ and Python to support the development of the corresponding real-time digital logic.
Machine Leaning Scientist
• Implementing multiple high-performance algorithms making the most out of AWS GPU instances and deep-learning applications using Torch framework, Lua and C++
Lead Applied Researcher
• Data modelling, cleaning and summarization. Working with NLP (n-grams, POS tagging, TF-IDF, topic modelling, clustering) Sklearn.
Machine Leaning Engineer
Senior Data Scientist
• Analysis of new data streams for inclusion in our real-time ad targeting engine. Prototyping real-time machine learning algorithms using cutting edge research
• Working with Natural language processing, adversarial learning, reinforcement learning, active learning, probabilistic Bayesian learning,.
NLP Developer Engineer
• Monitoring using CloudWatch, Cacti, netdata. Cleaning, gathering, and merging data from a diverse set of sources and automating associated processes
DevOps Engineer
Data Scientist/ Machine Learning Engineer
• Development of deep learning, multi-agent, and expert systems products. Developing traffic prediction algorithms.
~480
Total Number of AI/Big Data Start-ups
~$80K
Median Salary
Total Start-Up Talent pool
Tech companies Start-ups
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module . We have analysed ~2,000 tech companies and ~10,000 start-ups.
Location Deep Dive : Europe
2323
University Fresh graduates: India and China have high percentage of employable talent pool for AI & Big Data
~2.6 Mn
Big Data Analytics, Computer Vision, Natural
Language Processing, Machine Learning
Global Available Software Talent
14
0
4
0
4
0
4Total Employable Big
Data/ML Talent
300K – 320k23
Europe~96,000
USA~40,000
Canada
~18,000
China~80,000
India~37,000
Tier 1
~ 80KTier 2
~ 160KTier 3
~ 27K
Total AI professors –~1300 - 1400
Research Focus Areas – ML, Computer Vision
Top Employers in top universities – Uber, Amazon, Adobe, Google, Microsoft
Total AI professors –~150 -250
Research Focus Areas – ML, Computer Vision
Top Employers in top universities – Uber, Google, Citi
Total AI professors –~ 550 - 650
Research Focus Areas – Computer Vision, ML
Top Employers in top universities – Google Microsoft, Facebook
Total AI professors –~50 - 100
Research Focus Areas –ML
Top Employers in top universities – Amazon, Flipkart, Microsoft
Total AI professors –~450 - 550
Research Focus Areas –NLP, Computer Vision
Top Employers in top universities – Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Google, Microsoft, Huwaei
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Module analysed 100,000+ global universities to identify top universities and key courses in software engineering, ML and Big Data
32,000UK
24,000Germany
12,000France
5,000S. America
2,000Israel
6,000Singapore
8,000Africa
18,000Australia
Supply Analysis
2424
DRAUP Methodology : Top university ranking
No. of ML/BD courses
No. of ML/BDpublications
No. of Masters/Phds
CoE of techcompanies
Startups Born
Maturity of AL/MLcourses
University 1 University 2 University 3
University 4 University 5
1Maturity of ML/BD coursesMaturity of the courses has been calculated by analyzing depth of courses, number of enrollments, no. of citations of publication by professor teaching the course etc.
2No. of ML/BD coursesTotal number of ML and Big Data courses taught in the university
3No. of ML/BD publicationsNumber of ML and Big Data publications done by the professors/phds of the universities
4No. of Masters/Phds
5CoE of tech companies
6Start-ups born
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2
3
4
5
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Number of ML and Big Data publications done by the professors/phds of the universities
If tech companies have opened Centre of Excellence for AI or Big Data by tying up with the universities
Number of startups born from the universityNote : The ranking shown is a sample
Note : DRAUP’s Talent Module analysed 100,000+ global universities to identify top universities and key courses in software engineering, ML and Big Data