I have only anecdotal experience (I live in Warsaw, but do contracts mostly for Poland, UK and US). General data science is in need. I can get contracts easily

I have only anecdotal experience (I live in Warsaw, but do contracts mostly for Poland, UK and US). General data science is in need. I can get contracts easily, I know that people looking for competent people need to wait; especially as it is a skill much harder to pick than, say, front-end web dev (unless someone starts from a highly quantitive background like physics, modelling in biology, etc). My general impression are: - ML (especially practical one, like logistic regression and random forest) is often integral parts of many data analyses (or at least a plus), - there are not as many jobs solely focused on ML; and if so, often they require some specialistic expertise, - and even less only for deep learning (also, for DL there is relatively high threshold for having skills at "hireable" level). Some of my tips on how to learn data science: http://p.migdal.pl/2016/03/15/data-science-intro-for-math-phys-background.html http://p.migdal.pl/2016/03/15/data-science-intro-for-math-ph... (on purpose I put the emphasis on general data exploration/analysis before machine learning).