Data analyst: certifications, study paths and pay
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You turn data into answers. You clean and analyse data, build reports and dashboards and help teams decide what to do next.
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What you do
- Pull and clean data from different sources
- Build charts, dashboards and reports
- Explain results and recommendations to non-technical colleagues
Skills that matter
- SQL and spreadsheets
- A BI tool such as Power BI or Tableau
- Basic statistics
- Storytelling with data
What does this role pay?
United States, May 2025, annual wages for the closest official occupation: Operations research analysts, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Entry-level jobs usually start nearer the lower figure. Pay in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries is different, so check local job boards and salary guides. These figures are a guide, not an offer or a promise of pay.
Practice tests that fit this role
Certifications that appear most often alongside this role. Start with the first one if you are new to it.
Study paths that lead here
Data and analytics path
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STUDY PATHGoogle Cloud AI and data track
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Job titles this page covers
- BI or reporting analyst
- Business or product analyst
- Cloud data practitioner
- Data analyst
- Data analyst on Oracle platforms
- Data analyst working with LLMs
- Data operations analyst
- Data platform analyst
- Data quality analyst
- Data steward
- Finance or operations analyst
- Finance or risk analyst
- Marketing or sales analyst
- Operations analyst
- Operations or marketing analyst
- Product analyst
- Reporting or BI analyst
- Reporting specialist
- Sales operations analyst
Employers use many names for similar work. Requirements vary by employer and country, and a certificate supports your application but does not guarantee a job.
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