The UK’s dedicated jobs platform for data professionals, OnlyDataJobs, is expanding its offer by collaborating with established data and analytics recruitment consultancy Jacob Ross Talent Solutions. Together, the two services will unite to offer a full 360-degree recruitment solution for businesses of all industries looking to hire a data expert.
Jacob Ross is a recruitment consultancy that specialises in connecting businesses with data, business intelligence and analytics professionals. With a database of over 10,000 candidates at any given time, Jacob Ross offers an end-to-end recruitment service that includes headhunting, assessment of candidates, job advertising and access to the latest market insights when hiring data professionals.
After going live in 2022, OnlyDataJobs has quickly become the UK’s largest data and analytics jobs board. It currently hosts over 11,000 jobs for companies including Apple, Johnson&Johnson, the National Health Service and the Bank of England for positions such as head of data, data analyst and data engineer.
Both OnlyDataJobs and Jacob Ross share the same mission – to help businesses of all sizes unlock the benefits of their data, by helping them hire experts in a notoriously difficult-to-recruit area. Transforming to a data-driven business model – where decisions are made based on what we know, rather than how we feel – is at the core of any business growth strategy in 2023 and beyond.
Data and analytics teams need the right talent to drive measurable outcomes, and businesses are starting to wake up to that realisation. The Royal Society reports that demand for specialist data skills has more than tripled since 2013. Elsewhere, analysis of 9.4 million online job adverts, commissioned by the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), predicts that data analysis skills will be the fastest growing digital skills cluster through to 2025.
“Businesses need data experts, now more than ever,” said Ryan Jones, founder of Jacob Ross. “As many organisations move towards becoming truly data driven, the importance of working with a recruitment company who knows the data market in depth, becomes more important.
“We’re partnering with OnlyDataJobs to provide an end-to-end recruitment service,” Jones conitnues. “Hiring businesses will be able to advertise their role on OnlyDataJobs, the largest jobs board of its kind, free of charge. Additionally, our highly specialised team of recruitment consultants support with the sourcing, briefing and candidate interview set-up and management of the entire hiring process.”
John Salt, co-founder of OnlyDataJobs, also believes uniting the two services will form the most robust data professionals recruitment service on the market: “Since we launched OnlyDataJobs, it’s become apparent that, while a rapidly-growing number of businesses want to hire a data expert, knowing what to do beyond posting a job ad isn’t easy or effective in engaging quality talent.
“Partnering with Jacob Ross means UK companies can enjoy exposure to an established and growing talent pool of data professionals. Recruiters are experts in engaging with and hiring data professionals. That means we’re able to understand the highly technical requirements a business expects when hiring a data professional, whether that’s proficiency in SQL or Python, a solid understanding of cloud migration or experience in handling data in a certain sector. Our vast experience enables us to translate those requirements to our candidate network effectively.
“Combining the expertise of Jacob Ross and the unique exposure opportunity OnlyDataJobs provides means more businesses can access the right data professionals that will ultimately help them achieve their data-driven ambitions,” Salt concludes.
