2015′s Top 10 Most Sought After IT Related Jobs

Are you an IT decision maker looking to understand more about current trends and future shifts in the sector? Perhaps you’re in a related field and want to understand if your skills will be in demand in the coming year?

Flagship IT and Operations publication Computerworld recently released their 2015 Forecast survey. The poll gives the low down on priorities and shifts within the IT sector and related job markets for the coming 12 months.

Here’s a look at the 10 IT skills that the 194 IT executives who responded to our survey said will be most in demand heading into 2015.

 

1. Programming/application development

 

• 48% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 1

 

As was the case last year and the year before that, IT departments are more likely to have job openings for programmers and developers than for any other position.

 

2. Project management

 

• 35% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 5

 

Demand for project managers jumped four spots up the list this year, and that doesn’t surprise Leon Kappelman, lead researcher for the Society for Information Management’s (SIM) IT Trends Study.

 

3. Help desk/technical support

 

• 30% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 2

 

IT leaders say they still have a growing need for help desk and technical support staffers because ongoing projects expand the list of devices and applications that their departments must support.

 

4. Security/compliance governance

 

• 28% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 7

 

Executives and board members are willing to spend more money on security because security breaches are making headlines these days. SIM’s research shows that IT departments are beefing up their security ranks; security ranked seventh on the organization’s list of most significant IT investments for 2014.

 

5. Web development

 

• 28% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: Not ranked

 

Matt Leighton, director of recruitment at Mondo, a tech staffing agency, says that Web development expertise is one of the hardest skill sets to find. “The influx of demand has not been met with the talent readily available — there is a gap in terms of what the companies want to do and the talent that is out there to execute these initiatives,” he says.

 

6. Database administration

 

• 26% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 6

 

Database administration is a tried-and-true IT role — one that’s always needed in any organization. But the buzz around big data is what’s driving much of today’s demand for people with this skill. “You’ve got the ability to crunch massive amounts of data, but you still need to understand how your database has been put together,” says Terry Erdle, executive vice president for certifications and learning at CompTIA, a wireless industry trade group.

 

7. Business intelligence/analytics

 

• 24% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 8

 

Respondents to the Computerworld Forecast survey who said they plan to add IT positions in the next 12 months listed BI/analytics expertise as the skill set they expect to have the hardest time finding.

 

8. Mobile applications and device management

 

• 24% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 4

 

IT executives are trying to keep up with demand for mobile apps from employees who bring their own devices to work. This has seen a trend of hiring new people and training existing staff members who are interested in learning about mobile app development and device management.

 

9. Networking

 

• 22% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 3

 

According to the recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report, 57% of U.S. technology executives said network administration tops the list of skills needed in their organizations.

 

10. Big data

 

• 20% of respondents said they plan to hire for this skill in the next 12 months.
• Last year’s ranking: No. 11

 

In its September 2014 report titled “Fastest-Growing Tech Skills,”Dice reported that the number of postings related to big data on its IT jobs site grew 56% year over year. Moreover, the company noted that demand for big data expertise cuts across a number of industries, helping to boost not only demand for people with the right skills, but pay as well. “Data balloons every day, and therefore the amount of information we need to sift through to get at the real nuggets of value is exponentially bigger than it was a year ago,” says HMS’s Nustad. “And the executive team’s awareness that the data brings value has created this surge in demand.”

 

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