I can just tell from my own experience, having interviewed and researched a ton of ML jobs: The majority of ML jobs today seem to be re-branded analytics jobs.

I can just tell from my own experience, having interviewed and researched a ton of ML jobs: The majority of ML jobs today seem to be re-branded analytics jobs. I'd say that a solid 4 in 5 of the jobs I've interviewed for, which were tagged in the ML domain, were just that. Typical [x] analytics jobs which don't really require more than stats 101, and good handling of excel. Basic scripting knowledge were often in the nice-to-know section. Now, there might be a world difference in the typical ML jobs you see in startup hubs like SF, and the jobs you see elsewhere - but companies are, and have been for almost 10 years, been desperate to get onboard of the hype-train, and have re-banded a lot of jobs to attract those wanting to work with ML or Data Science.