 New Technology has a big leap towards the cloud technology in the last 5 years and it is becoming ever more increasingly so. Hence the demand of IT market for competent IT professionals with cloud and big data skills is increasingly getting upper hand. Analysis by Recruitment companies on the IT required skills for 2016 is predicting the following results for 2016 on major 5 skill sets and cloud as being on the top of the list.
BIG DATA and CLOUD COMPUTING
Due to increasing use of Social media and streaming, data loads are getting huge and analysis of this big data in any meaningful way is getting ever more important. Big data as structured or unstructured stored in cloud can’t be easily processed using traditional data analysis methods. The demand for individuals who have IT skills to collect and analyse this complex data from the cloud using cloud computing skills is increasing.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE and ANALYTICS
Businesses are always seeking new and intuitive ways to analyse large amounts of raw data to help identify and develop new strategic business opportunities for the future. By implementing this strategy based on the insights found it can give businesses a competitive market benefit and company stability for the future.
Professionals with experience in BI, SQL, SAS and analytics are being sought after as companies look to be more involved in data analysis.
MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT
With smartphones becoming more advanced and continually revolutionizing the way we communicate and work, there will always be a demand for mobile developers to create new and exciting mobile apps for iOS and Android.
The app market shows no sign of slowing down. Programming languages for mobile such as Java still continue to be used for mobile development but the introduction of Apple’s programming language, Apple Swift for Apple iOS and watchOS could prove to be a valuable skill in developing new and ground-breaking apps.
DIGITAL MARKETING and SOCIAL MEDIA
Not all skills need to be technical as many businesses have become dedicated to improving their digital marketing and social media presence online. The popularity of platforms like Facebook, Twitter or company blogs always require user engagement and unique content to keep users interested and up to date with company and PR related news.This means developing engaging content that informs existing customers and gains a new audience through shared content and search engine performance. Individuals skilled in are very high in demand due to the important of search rankings and content marketing.
FRONT END DEVELOPMENT
Front end development skills continue to be a valuable asset to have with improvements to HTML, CSS, Javascript becoming more advanced and intuitive. HTML5 has steadily taking over Flash with popular websites such as Youtube and Facebook being in favour of HTML5 for its video player.
Another example is the increasing popularity of SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) that boasts more features than any other CSS extension language out there.
Open source Javascript libraries such as React are becoming increasingly favoured. Not far behind that is Grunt a JavaScript Task Runner which has also become a very sought after skill. Another popular HTML, CSS and JS framework is Twitter’s Bootstrap which has become quite prominent for the development of responsive mobile projects.
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