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Report: ‘Big data’ to create 4.4M global IT jobs

The global phenomenon of big data could create 4.4 million IT jobs worldwide by 2015, of which 1.9 million will be in the United States, according to Peter Sondergaard, Gartner’s senior vice president and global head of research. As Sondergaard explained, every big data-related position in the U.S. will create jobs for three people outside of IT, so over the next four years a total of 6 million jobs in the U.S. will be generated by the information economy.

However, on the other hand, the industry faces great challenges, including a lack of talent. That’s why Sondergaard believes only one-third of the IT jobs will be filled. “Data experts will be a scarce, valuable commodity. These jobs will be needed to grow your business. These jobs are the future of the new information economy,” he said at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. (Next week, this event will be hosted in São Paulo, Brazil and will be attended by RCR Wireless News.)

Big data has emerged as the next technology trend. The constant stream of information from internal and external sources has created a new layer in the economy which is all about turning information, or data, into revenue.

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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.