Tech Skills In High Demand For 2013

Tech world is buzzing with many programming languages, platforms (mobile and PC), protocols and other technologies, that can easily put you in an uneasy spot if you were to select the one which is really important right now.

1.IT Project Management:

                        

IT sector is not only technical but a managerial juggle too. Coding, maintaining infrastructure and designing software are all really important, but they're kind of useless without somebody to see the project through to completion.

IT sector works under immense pressure. Large projects, scarce resources, tight deadlines, quick deliverables, and high client expectations are typical for an IT company. Any project delays can be extremely costly. This is where IT project management comes under limelight. It is basically a process of planning, organizing and delineating responsibility for the completion of organizations' specific information technology (IT) goals.
                        That's why certified project managers can pull in six figure incomes and why 40 percent of IT executives are looking to hire project managers in 2013.

2. HTML5 / CSS:

         HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and is the core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML 4 as of 1997) and, as of December 2012, is a W3C Candidate Recommendation.
           Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. It’s most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL.
                      This simple markup language is literally what the Web is made of, with cascading style sheets (CSS) making everything look nice and JavaScript adding interactive functionality.
                       In fact, as tablets, Smartphones and cloud-hosted services proliferate, the importance of the Web grows along with it. Consumers still need to access their cloud-hosted SaaS services via their Web browser. And studies show that tablet owners still love the Web.
                      After years of relative stagnation, HTML has made big advancements in recent years with HTML5, which is now supported by the latest versions of all major Web browsers. Meanwhile, the design options available via CSS3 and the interactivity provided by JavaScript have pushed the Web even further, blurring the line between Web-based and native apps.
                      Elance and Indeed both rank HTML as one of their most sought-after job skills, while other studies routinely point to it being in strong demand.

3. JavaScript (And Related Technologies):

  JavaScript (JS) is an interpreted computer programming language. It was originally implemented as part of web browsers so that client-side scripts could interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that was displayed. It is what which make things interactive on the web. Lately, there has been a meteoric rise in internet users around the world, all thanks to tablets and Smartphones, and so JavaScript becomes indispensible at this moment.  

Whether it's the ever-popular jQuery framework or the JSON data interchange standard, companies need JavaScript-focused talent like never before. In fact, JSON is the most in-demand skill on CyberCoders.

                   It's worth noting that when people say "HTML5," they're often referring in part to JavaScript. That's because what makes Web apps look and feel so app-like is CSS and JavaScript, not just the plain HTML itself.

                       

4. Java / J2EE:

Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented computer programming language that is specifically designed to have few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another.                  

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is Oracle's enterprise Java computing platform. The platform provides an API and runtime environment for developing and running enterprise software, including network and web services, and other large-scale, multi-tiered, scalable, reliable, and secure network applications.
                      Java and the J2EE development platform are popping up more and more on job hiring boards and they will be high in demand throughout 2013, according to a survey from Dice.
                      Unlike hot new technologies like Android development and HTML5, demand for Java skills has been fairly consistent over time, although it has been on the rise in the last few years.

                    

5. All Things "Cloud":

 

The two hot things that are ruling the cloud now are- SaaS (Software as a service) and PaaS (Platform as a service).

SaaS, sometimes referred to as "on-demand software" supplied by ISVs or "Application-Service-Providers" (ASPs), is a software delivery model in which software and associated data are centrally hosted on the cloud. SaaS is typically accessed by users using a thin client via a web browser. SaaS has become a common delivery model for many business applications, including Office & Messaging software, DBMS software, Management software, CAD software, Development software, Virtualization, accounting and many more. 

 PaaS is a category of cloud computing service that provides a computing platform and a solution stack as a service. Along with software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), it is also a service model of cloud computing. In this model, the consumer creates the software using tools and/or libraries from the provider. The consumer also controls software deployment and configuration settings. The provider provides the networks, servers, storage and other services.

                       According to one survey of IT execs, 25 percent of companies are planning on hiring people with SaaS and related cloud-computing expertise in 2013.  In general, SaaS and virtualization are both buzzwords often cited as being on-the-rise job on employment search sites.             

6. PHP / MySQL:

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP is now installed on more than 244 million websites and 2.1 million web servers.
MySQL is the world's most widely used open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. The SQL phrase stands for Structured Query Language.
The open source scripting language runs on more than 20 million websites and powers high-profile sites we deal with every day, including Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress or Drupal. So you can say that it’s all over web.
                       PHP is currently ranked as the most sought-after skill on Elance, with MySQL and Wordpress also cracking the top ten. There are more than a quarter of a million PHP programming gigs listed on Elance, a global online staffing platform, alone.

7. iOS Development:

 

As of September 12, 2012, Apple's App Store contained more than 700,000 iOS applications, which have collectively been downloaded more than 40 billion times. It had a 21 percent share of the Smartphone mobile operating system units shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012, behind only Google's Android.    It comes as no surprise that iOS developers are sought after. Most sources that track job talent demands iOS development or related skills like Xcode and Objective-C programming very highly.

  iPhone and iPad development have been trendy for a few years now, but things actually got accelerated pretty dramatically in the last two years. After years of slow but steady growth, demand for iOS development skyrocketed over the course of 2011 and 2012, according to data from the job aggregator site, Indeed.

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