Industry

A PLURALITY OF RESPONDENTS (20%) WORKED IN CONSULTING, after which the top industries were software (18%), banking/finance (10%), and retail/ecommerce (9%). These figures are very similar to those of the worldwide sample.

As with company size, the differences in salaries among industries was largely attributable to geography. Manufacturing, insurance, and publishing/media were all overrepresented by countries with higher salaries. One exception to this was banking/ finance, which had a high median salary of €58K and did not correlate with a particular country or region: data professionals in banking do appear to earn more.