Data Analysis roadmap
You help a company understand what is happening: what sells, what fails, which customers leave. You use Excel, SQL and charts to tell a story with numbers.
A normal day
- Answer “why did sales drop?” with data
- Build a Power BI dashboard
- Explain a finding to the business team
You’ll like it if…
- You like finding patterns
- You are comfortable with numbers and Excel
- You like explaining things to others
How to start in Data Analysis from zero
Months 0–3: the basics
- Advanced Excel (pivot tables)
- Basic statistics
- SQL from zero
Months 3–6: your first projects
- Power BI or Tableau
- Cleaning real data
- Telling stories with charts
Months 6–12: ready to apply
- Basic Python (pandas)
- 3 published analyses with public data
- A data analytics certificate
First jobs
- Junior Data Analyst
- BI Analyst
- Reporting Analyst
Portfolio projects
- A sales dashboard with public data
- Rent prices in your city
- Your own survey analyzed end to end
Tools
- Excel
- SQL
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Python
How much does Data Analysis pay?
Median monthly pay in Spanish-speaking Latin America, by experience. The bar runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile of reported pay.
There aren’t enough reported salaries from Latin America for this path yet (we require at least 30 per experience level; there are 10 in total today). We’ll publish it once the data is there.
Official data for Peru
Systems analysts and software developers: median monthly pay S/ 3,470. Half earn between S/ 2,050 and S/ 5,000.
- Up to age 29: S/ 3,080
- Age 30 and over: S/ 3,490
National Household Survey (INEI) 2022–2024, 260 people surveyed, weighted to represent the country. It is a broad group: the survey does not separate Data Analysis from other jobs in the group.
Young (18–29) institute graduates in Ciencias de la Computación: average S/ 1,972 a month, most between S/ 1,000 and S/ 3,400.
Payroll records 2020, graduates 2017-2019. It is old data: treat it as a reference floor.
Where these numbers come from
- Pay by experience: Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Stack Exchange Inc., surveys 2024–2026, 1,434 salaries from 17 countries, converted to USD by Stack Overflow. License Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0; our derived data is published under the same license. Respondents often work remotely for foreign companies, so figures may be above the local average.
- Peru figure: MINEDU y MTPE, Ponte en Carrera (Planilla Electrónica / Padrón de Egresados); INEI, Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (ENAHO), módulo de empleo e ingresos, 2022–2024: monetary income from the main job, in soles.
- Updated 2026-11-04. Recalculated every quarter.
Where to study Data Analysis online
Google Career CertificatesPaid
Certificates in data analytics, cybersecurity, UX and IT support. Coursera offers financial aid.
Kaggle LearnFree
Free micro-courses in Python, SQL, pandas and machine learning.
Microsoft LearnFree
Free paths for Azure, Power BI, data and AI.
PlatziPaid
Spanish-language online school for coding, data, AI and design.
CourseraFree + paid
Courses from universities and companies; many can be audited for free.
Universities, institutes and bootcamps
Peru
- Universidad Nacional de IngenierĂa (UNI): IngenierĂa de Sistemas
- Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM): IngenierĂa de Sistemas
- Universidad Nacional de San AgustĂn (UNSA): IngenierĂa de Sistemas
- Universidad de IngenierĂa y TecnologĂa (UTEC): Ciencia de Datos e Inteligencia Artificial
- Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC): IngenierĂa de Sistemas de InformaciĂłn
- Universidad de Lima: IngenierĂa de Sistemas
- Universidad ESAN: IngenierĂa en Ciencia de Datos
- Universidad TecnolĂłgica del PerĂş (UTP): IngenierĂa de Sistemas e Informática (a distancia)
- Tecsup: Big Data y Ciencia de Datos
Colombia
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia: IngenierĂa de Sistemas y ComputaciĂłn
- Universidad de Antioquia: IngenierĂa de Sistemas
Mexico
- Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN): Licenciatura en Ciencia de Datos