Data analyst v/s data engineer

Is data engineer a good carrier to opt for considering the salary, growth and future prospects?

I am a fresher and I am not getting shortlisted. I am trying for data analyst and PM roles. Now, I am considering changing my job role. Do you have any suggestions for me? Which is the best career option (not a proper coding role like SDE, DEVELOPER, ETC. )? Will this career sustain in the future? What is the pay for that role?

I would like to know from real world data scientists if they think, data science is better than Data engineering. I am a data engineer with 2.6 YOE. I want to grow. But should i focus more on data engineering or should i focus on data science for my career growth. I need some valuable suggestions.

Considering the automation threat from AI analytics roles might get fewer and salaries are not that much high in analytics. What are your views on this? Do you think analytics will be the most impacted field because of AI? If anyone had changed from analytics to de/ds, how difficult to change?

Do data engineers or big data engineers in India get a similar salary as SDE or data scientist or is it lesser or more than SDE/DS? What are your numbers and YOE as data engineer? Thanks in advance🙂

I am unemployed since 1 year,did not do anything for 1 year coz of some reason , earlier I was in QA but now want to get into development. Already 1 year is gone which is big enough career gap and I am panicking. Now I am not able to understand whether I should join any software development course like Crio or shall I join any Data science/ML course. Whatever I have to do it will take 6 months more , but I guess I have no choice. I know basic nodejs and all but no knowledge of Data science however DS will be more in demand in future so that is why I am thinking about that. But I am not sure which one shall I take ? I just wanted to know from folks that can anyone learn Data science in 6 months good enough to get a job or shall I opt for software development course. Also , if I shall go for data science course , please suggest me some good training institute for it.

What will be the future of a data engineer after these much recession/layoffs or arrival of AI

I've been an Oracle Database Administrator handling databases and exadata, data guard, performance tuning (not so great at it), little bit of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as well and typical DBA tasks including tablespace reorganization, migrations, etc. for the last 3 years. Now I'm thinking about transitioning into a Data Engineer/Data Analyst roles as it seems it is having a more lucrative future ahead. I'm good at doing DBA things but I'm doubtful about this considering the future scope of this as there isn't much a DBA has to do in databases as most of the work is handled by Database itself but I have an interest in it and getting calls from other companies as well for the same role. Is DBA a really good career option considering the future and the compensation? Or exploring or gaining skills in data engineering/analyst has more benefit? Also, what would be the best among Data Engineer/Data Analyst/AI,ML Engineer?

Hey , what's the average salary of an Data analyst in India? What all skills are required and how's the market for freshers in data analyst?