Search engines (Google, Microsoft), social networks (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn), financial institutions, Amazon, Apple, eBay, the health care industry, engineering companies (Boeing, Intel, Oil industry), retail analytics, mobile analytics, marketing agencies, data science vendors (for instance, Pivotal, Teradata, Tableau, SAS, Alpine Labs), environment, utilities government and defense routinely hire data scientists, though the job title is sometimes different. Traditional companies (manufacturing) tend to call them operations research analysts.

Most jobs (at least, the senior roles) are still concentrated in US (New York and Bay Area), but some places are catching up fast: Singapore, Spain, Ireland, and London. Below is a list of companies with the largest numbers of data scientists, based on Data Science Central internal data.

The list below is based on the author’s 10,000+ LinkedIn connections, broken down per company, and ordered by number of connections. Note that there are many ties outside the top 15. Only companies with at least 5 connections are listed here.The top 20 companies represent about 10% of all data scientists, but the distribution has a very long, unusually heavy tail. Download the comprehensive list with 6000+ companies.

1. Microsoft
2. IBM
3. Amazon
4. SAS
5. Google
6. Accenture
7. Oracle
8. LinkedIn
9. FICO
10. Bank of America
11. Citi
12. Tata Consultancy Services
13. Facebook
14. Cognizant Technology Solutions
15. Wells Fargo
16. Capgemini
17. eBay
18. Apple
19. Hewlett-Packard
20. EMC
21. Pivotal
22. Yahoo!
23. Capital One
24. Deloitte
25. PayPal
26. Dell
27. Ernst & Young
28. JPMorgan Chase
29. Teradata
30. Fractal Analytics
31. Nielsen
32. Intuit
33. Opera Solutions
34. SAP
35. Equifax
36. Infosys
37. Aon Hewitt
38. Cisco Systems
39. Intel Corporation
40. KPMG
41. PwC
42. Stanford University
43. Target
44. Adobe
45. American Express
46. CIBC
47. CSC
48. Electronic Arts
49. Experian
50. HSBC
51. KXEN
52. LexisNexis
53. Revolution Analytics
54. Sears Holdings Corporation
55. StatSoft
56. Wipro Technologies
57. @WalmartLabs
58. Avanade
59. Inductis
60. MarketShare
61. Verizon
62. Visa
63. Adknowledge
64. Boeing
65. CoreLogic
66. EY
67. Gartner
68. GE Capital
69. Groupon
70. HCL Technologies
71. LatentView
72. Mahindra Satyam
73. Mu Sigma
74. Society Consulting
75. Starbucks
76. T-Mobile
77. Twitter
78. UK Based RPO

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