There are jobs in analytics for anyone who can analyze. My background is in statistical astrophysics and and my mailbox is still full. It turns out that my experience in modelings changes in (stellar) populations and predicting seemingly random (astronomical) events that happen every few years puts me in good stead for modeling other things that happen every few years - like buying a few car.

The analytic teams I see have economists, statisticians, several theoretical physicists like myself, a few psychologists and biologists and occasionally other scientific disciplines. For example, I know a very talented person with an educational background in forensic science.

What all of us have in common is a solid grounding in statistics with practical experience in real-world, often dirty data, data mining, strong communication skills and an ability to match the right analytic method to given business problem. What we all have in common is analytics applied to real-world situations. There aren't nearly enough people to meet the need and the world is beating a path to out door.