The Ten Fastest-Growing In-Demand Tech Skills
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The Ten Fastest-Growing In-Demand Tech Skills
By Dennis McCafferty -
Cloudera Impala
Average salary: $139,874. Ranked demand climbed: 2,593 positions. Cloudera Impala is an open-source MPP SQL query engine for mining data stored in increasingly popular Apache Hadoop clusters. -
Adobe Experience Manager
Average salary: $123,599. Ranked demand climbed: 2,559 positions. The Adobe Experience Manager tool is designed for organizing and managing creative assets, a critical skill at a time when IT and marketing are working together on strategic initiatives. -
Ansible
Average salary: $124,860. Ranked demand climbed: 2,532 positions. An open-source tool, Ansible helps system admins configure and manage PCs. -
Xamarin
Average salary: $101,707. Ranked demand climbed: 1,991 positions. Development teams rapidly build iOS and Android apps by using Xamarin to develop cross-platform in C#. -
OnCue
Average salary: $125,067. Ranked demand climbed: 1,981 positions . Currently owned by Verizon, OnCue is a Web-based TV service. -
Laravel
Average salary: $96,219. Ranked demand climbed: 1,917 positions. With soaring interest in tech social channels, Laravel supports open-source PHP Web applications. -
RStudio
Average salary: $117,257. Ranked demand climbed: 1,912 positions. This integrated development environment for R (a statistical programming language that's a lucrative specialty for skilled developers) allows teams to share workspaces. -
Unified Functional Testing
Average salary: $102,419. Ranked demand climbed: 1,892 positions. With HP's Unified Functional Testing platform, IT pros can test software platforms and ecosystems using a Windows-centric solution. -
Object Pascal
Average salary: $77,907. Ranked demand climbed: 1,889 positions,. As an "oldie but a goodie," Pascal is still very much in use, which makes this high-profile offshoot popular. -
Apache Kafka
Average salary: $134,950. Ranked demand climbed: 1,798 positions. The Apache Software Foundation developed this tool to maintain real-time data feeds, as it can handle hundreds of megabytes per second of writes and reads from thousands of clients.
You don't have to immerse yourself in JavaScript or C# to become an in-demand IT professional. In fact, the following 10 skills are considered the hottest right now, in terms of rising demand among employers, according to recent research from Dice.com. The professional communities and job board site based its list on the skills cited as requirements by employers over the past two years, determined by the number of job postings in which the various skills appeared. The list covers the range of trends that are affecting technology now and will in the future, including data management, application development, analytics, software development and online content. (They even include a derivative of a programming language that's more than four decades old!) In addition, one particular skill addresses a trend that Baseline has reported on frequently: the growing alignment of IT and marketing to drive business growth. For whatever technology and business purposes they serve, the skills on this list have risen in terms of ranked demand (times mentioned in job postings) by an estimated 1,800 positions, with the top fastest-growing skills climbing well over 2,500 job slots between 2013 and 2014.