Algorithm design, statistical analysis, data mining, business intelligence are some of the skills that are seeing an increasing demand worldwide, especially the US, India and Brazil.
Professional networking website LinkedIn analyzed the skills and experience data in over 330 million member profiles and concluded that tech skills dominated the ‘hottest skills’ list. “Across the globe, statistics and data analysis skills were highly valued. In the US, India, and Brazil, cloud and distributed computing skills were in particularly high demand,” Sohan Murthy, research consultant at LinkedIn, wrote in a blog post. A few trends that emerged from the data are: Recruiting is among the top 20 skills across the world underscoring the importance of talent acquisition in 2015. Secondly, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) specialties dominate hiring and thirdly, marketing is back in the vogue through multiple disciplines.
The 25 Hottest Professional Skills Of 2014 Globally
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
Middleware and Integration Software
Storage Systems and Management
Network and Information Security
SEO/SEM Marketing
Business Intelligence
Mobile Development
Web Architecture and Development Framework
Algorithm Design
Perl/Python/Ruby
Data Engineering and Data Warehousing
Marketing Campaign Management
Mac, Linux and Unix Systems
User Interface Design
Recruiting
Digital and Online Marketing
Computer Graphics and Animation
Economics
Java Development
Channel Marketing
SAP ERP Systems
Integrated Circuit (IC) Design
Shell Scripting Languages
Game Development
Virtualization
According to the LinkedIn report, here is a snapshot of the top skills in India
