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

1. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
2. Middleware and Integration Software
3. Storage Systems and Management
4. Network and Information Security
5. SEO/SEM Marketing
6. Business Intelligence
7. Mobile Development
8. Web Architecture and Development Framework
9. Algorithm Design
10. Perl/Python/Ruby
11. Data Engineering and Data Warehousing
12. Marketing Campaign Management
13. Mac, Linux and Unix Systems
14. User Interface Design
15. Recruiting
16. Digital and Online Marketing
17. Computer Graphics and Animation
18. Economics
19. Java Development
20. Channel Marketing
21. SAP ERP Systems
22. Integrated Circuit (IC) Design
23. Shell Scripting Languages
24. Game Development
25. Virtualization

According to the LinkedIn report, here is a snapshot of the top skills in India

1. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
2. Storage systems and management
3. Cloud and distributed computing
4. PR and Communications
5. Network and Information security
6. Social Media marketing
7. Algorithm design
8. Perl/Python/Ruby
9. Web architecture and development framework
10. Mc, Unix and Linux systems
11. User Interface Design
12. Data presentation
13. Economics
14. Mobile development
15. Virtualization
16. Public policy and international relations
17. Digital and online marketing
18. Business intelligence
19. Data engineering and data warehousing
20. Game development
21. Middleware and integration software
22. Market research and insights
23. Shell scripting languages
24. SEO/SEM marketing
25. Electronic and electrical engineering