The Ten Fastest Growing IT Job Categories
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Cyber-security: 1,768 jobs, 162% growth
With a long list of cyber-attack victims, professionals who have cyber-security credentials should not be hurting for work or competing offers. -
Salesforce.com: 1,088 jobs, 57% growth
How big is demand for Salesforce products? Big enough for the company to move into the 1,070-foot-tall Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. -
NoSQL: 1,549 jobs, 54% growth
A major player in data storage and retrieval, the NoSQL market is expect to grow to $1.6 billion by 2017. -
JIRA: 1,142 jobs, 48% growth
Used for tracking bugs and other issues, as well as project management, "JIRA" is a play on the word "Gojira," the Japanese name for Godzilla. -
CRM: 3,898 jobs, 48% growth
CRM is forecast to grow to a $36.5 billion global market by 2017, with annual sales increases of 15%. -
Big data: 1,808 jobs, 46% growth
Given that they store 80% of all big data, companies are seeking professionals who can help them take maximum advantage of that information. -
Hadoop: 1,687 jobs, 43% growth
A shining star of the open-source universe, Hadoop was named after a toy elephant owned by the son of co-founder Doug Cutting. -
ERP: 4,281 jobs, 40% growth
In 2012, a Forbes headline predicted "the end of ERP," but this technology still represents a $24.5 billion market. -
HTML5: 3,681 jobs, 30% growth
This emerged as a hot IT niche after Apple's Steve Jobs declared it as the future and said it would make Flash "no longer necessary." -
Cloud: 5,905 jobs, 27% growth
Organizations with high cloud adoption enjoy twice as much revenue growth as those considered cautious about moving to this technology.
If you're looking for a technology category that's experiencing job growth in the double-digits (and, in one case, a triple-digit), you have a number of options from which to choose, according to recent research from Dice, an online jobs and career community for technology professionals. That means there are ample opportunities for skilled IT workers to improve their employment stability, earnings and overall professional status. Much of the demand is a response to the surge of interest in cloud computing and big data analytics, as well as the growing number of malware attacks and network breaches that have plagued so many organizations recently. "With an unemployment rate of less than three percent [in the IT profession], just about everyone in technology today is popular with hiring managers and recruiters," writes Dice president Shravan Goli, in an analysis of the recent job numbers. "That said, professionals in big data, mobile, cloud computing and security take being favored to entirely new levels." (Check out Goli's Baseline blog.) The following is a breakdown of the IT job categories that are seeing the biggest growth in Dice postings.