25 hottest skills that got people hired

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.