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Through a detailed analysis of the popular "top skills" lists published this year as well as job search data from the past six months, we've identified seven of the most in-demand tech skill areas for 2016. Not surprisingly, software development and information security top our list, but other hot tech skills for 2016 might surprise you.
What we did to put our list of the top IT skill areas was review what other industry publications, like
InformationWeek,
ComputerWorld and
CIO.com have recently published and correlate the information with job search data from sites like
LinkedIn and
Dice.com as well as our own recent observations and analyses of the IT job market.
Going through the various lists, surveys, reports, slideshows and job postings, we couldn't help but notice that a great many detailed elements tended to cluster around specific skillsets or general job titles. For example, we ran into many specific designations for software developers that included mention of specific programming languages (like Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP and JavaScript) or specific frameworks (like ASP.NET, AngularJS and others) and even platforms (like AWS, Apache or Hadoop). So instead of trying to split these up into individual skill areas we decided to simply group them under software development, partly because most developers will have knowledge of more than one of these areas and also to simplify our list of recommendations. However, we do list subdisciplines and more granular information for each of the skill areas to provide readers more insight.
Thus, the seven tech skills listed below aim to offer a big picture career perspective as to what areas of IT are hottest right now. Then we dig deeper to provide you with more details on specific job skills that are capturing the most attention and focus from employers. As you'll notice, there's also some overlap among some of these areas, but that's because they don't occur in a vacuum—they overlap in the workplace and in the marketplace, and as such, they must overlap here too.
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Software Development
This is perhaps the busiest and broadest (or most specialized) of the technical skills areas on our list. Certainly, software developers at all levels need to understand basic principles of development, be conversant with all the major development philosophies, and ready to work within the frameworks, toolsets, and philosophies in use in their current or prospective workplaces.
But beyond that, there are many types of development areas with a number of notable subdisciplines. In 2016, the most popular software development areas in the workplace include web and mobile development. Data from Dice.com revealed that in addition to software engineering, specific experience with RESTful architectures, Python programming language and the Git version control system are incredibly in-demand right now.
Other development skills that popped up regularly include Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Perl, Scala, Django along with Android and Apple app development.
| Software Development: | Web, Mobile, Business Intelligence/Big Data, Database, SaaS, Test, QA |
Information Security
Opportunities for InfoSec professionals abound in all areas of security, from the Chief Security Officer (CSO) level all the way down to IT professionals charged with operational security responsibilities. For the foreseeable future, there is no safer technical career investment bet than information security for IT professionals. And there are plenty of opportunities for training, certifications as well as scholarships through a number of private and government initiatives.
| Information Security: | Policy, Operations, Forensics & Remediation, Penetration Testing |
Database Administration And Development
There's something of a tension, if not an outright overlap, between the database technical skills area and the big data/data science area listed below. This arm of the database business tends to focus more on mainstream, SQL-oriented database engines and related tools and platforms rather than other alternatives (such as MongDB or Hadoop).
There's still plenty of emphasis on data warehousing, data mining, business intelligence, and analytics of all kinds. Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server tend to be the leaders in this region of the IT skills landscape, so focus on those vendors' platforms, tools, and capabilities as they tend to rule this particular roost.
| Database: | Architect, Designer, Developer, Administrator |
Cloud And Virtualization
With as many varieties of cloud technology as one might like to contemplate now available, including private and public (with inevitable and unavoidable hybrid implementations galore) there's no escaping the value, importance, and reliance on cloud-based computing and technologies in the IT world. We include virtualization in this skills area because it is a primary enabler of the cloud itself, and a vital and essential aspect of its operation and use.
On the virtualization side, vendor or provider allegiances to the likes of VMware vSphere, Micorsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox and Citrix XenServer are unavoidable. On the cloud side of things there's increasing reliance on commodity providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Compute and HP's Converged Infrastructure with OpenStack skills in high demand as well. There is incredible opportunity here with as many different jobs and technical specialties as anyone might ever wish to explore.
| Cloud and Virtualization: | Architect, Designer, Administrator, Specialist (Compute, Storage, Networking) |
IT Operations And Governance
IT Operations and governance sit on the interface between IT as a technology and service organization, and IT as a business-oriented and process-driven function. This is where disciplines such as COBIT and ITIL come into play, and where lifecycle management processes and practices rule.
Compliance with related rules, laws, regulations, and established best practices must be applied and enforced for IT operations, including risk assessment and mitigation, auditing, formal change management, and so forth. This aspect of IT has to understand multiple big picture views of the IT function, especially as it relates to meeting business goals, ensuring and enhancing productivity and profitability, and where possible, adding or extending a competitive edge vis-à-vis other players in the same or similar markets.
An increasing number of jobs is inevitable for this skills area. IT operations and IT governance present interesting opportunities to IT professionals willing to learn about and formulate the policies and processes that must be enacted, and to practice the disciplines associated with lifecycle management.
| IT Operations and Governance: | IT Strategy, IT Management, Policy/Compliance, Governance, Project Management |
Big Data And Data Science
Big data, sometimes referred to as data science, seeks to find insight and wisdom in the enormous amounts of data collected continuously about business operations, transactions, communications, and so forth. As a data-driven and -focused skills area, it combines equal emphasis on managing and handling the data itself, on mathematical tools and models to make sense of what it contains and what it has to say, and on a variety of special tools to store, protect, and manipulate its potential treasures and traps.
This is the arena where non-traditional data engines such as Hadoop (HBase) and MongoDB come into play, and where disciplines such as data mining become important. Because the datasphere is growing so fast and looming so important for business success, this is another major area of opportunity for IT professionals seeking something substantial and valuable to add to their skills and knowledge collection.
| Big Data and Data Science | Architect, Analyst, Developer, Data Scientist, Administrator |
Networking
Underneath all the systems, services, and applications that make IT usable the network provides the glue that ties everything together and enables remote, far-flung enterprises, organizations, and the Internet to function. Though some may be inclined to look at networking as a form of glorified plumbing, like the real pipes and vessels that keep us healthy and clean in the real world, the communications links, wiring, and infrastructure elements that keep things flowing over our networks enable them to function and to remain profitable and productive.
There will always be a need for qualified, well-trained networking professionals who understand the wired and wireless hardware involved. And increasingly, the virtualized software that stands in for physical routers, switches, gateways, firewalls, content filters, and appliances of all kinds in their purely software-based analogs in the virtual world.
| Networking: | Architect, Designer, Installer/Implementer, Administrator, Specialist (Infrastucture, SDN & NFV, specific technologies) |
