Top 25 IT skills in demand in job market.

All of us take a new resolution at the beginning of new year so professional as well plan about their career related decisions in the year. Beginning of the year is the crucial time to set targets and plan accordingly to meet that target. At the beginning of the new year, many professionals would be contemplating about a job change or even a starting a new career. But what skills are employers looking for?

Our researchers tried to categorize the highly demanded skills in the market to enable the professionals to be ready for the demands in the market. Market trends however tend to change periodically but one who is most adaptable to the current trend has more chances of transformation. In year 2015, companies hired new as well as experienced professionals. This year too hiring is expected to be higher than the last one. We got the trends from most offered jobs position and job posting by the employers.

2015 could be seen as the year cloud and distributed computing graduated from a niche skills set to more prominent skills set in the global workforce. It was a very hot category in a few countries last year, according to LinkedIn.

Skills related to statistical analysis and data mining featured at number 2 in the list. According to LinkedIn, it was the only skill category that consistently ranked in the top 4 across all of the countries analysed. “We still live in an increasingly data-driven world, and businesses are still aggressively hiring experts in data storage, retrieval and analysis.

However, demand for some skills cooled off. According to LinkedIn, “Game development dropped from 24th to 29th, digital and online marketing dropped from 16th to 32nd, SAP ERP systems dropped from 21st to 34th, computer graphics and animation dropped from 17th to 37th, and integrated circuit design dropped from 22nd to 41st.” Employers are still looking for these skills – just not as much as last year.

Hottest skills of 2016 (global) – according to LinkedIn

1. Cloud and Distributed Computing
2. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
3. Marketing Campaign Management
4. SEO/SEM Marketing
5. Middleware and Integration Software
6. Mobile Development
7. Network and Information Security
8. Storage Systems and Management
9. Web Architecture and Development Frameworks
10. User interface design
11. Data engineering and warehousing
12. Algorithm Design
13. Perl/Python Ruby
14. Shell Scripting Languages
15. Mac, Linux and Unix Systems
16. Channel Marketing
17. Virtualization
18. Business Intelligence
19. Java Development
20. Electronic and Electrical Engineering
21. Database management and software
22. Software modeling and process design
23. Software QA and user testing
24. Economics
25. Corporate law and governance.

So, if you are planning a big for the year, work on above skills to be imparted. Transformation and innovation is the theory of life so that of professional career as well.