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By Jeff Kelly, 26 Aug 2008 | SearchDataManagement.com

While the national unemployment rate continues to inch up, demand for certain data management professionals, including data warehousing pros and business intelligence (BI) analysts, remains high, according to a new report.

Information and data architects, those who design data warehouses and data marts and set organizations' data management and governance policies, are currently one of the two "hottest" types of jobs in the IT industry, according to Forrester Research.

Demand for data architects is high thanks to the continued growth in the type and volume of corporate data. "They define and oversee the organization's approach to shared information and create the enterprise data model and related data artifacts," the report says.

Though not among the hottest, content and data analysts are also much in demand, according to the report. Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester defines content analysts as those who deal largely with unstructured data like text-based content, while data analysts typically handle database-derived structured data.

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