DATA-RELATED SKILLS ARE MOST NEEDED BY TECH EMPLOYERS
According to Dice.com’s analysis of the job postings, employers are taking a holistic approach in terms of skills needed.
“Based on the total volume of job postings, organizations want technologists who’ve mastered the nuances of Agile methodology, troubleshooting and software engineering, and can use all of those to guide projects from inception to completion,” the report reads.
“They also need more projects executed in the cloud, which is why cloud computing has enjoyed the most year-over-year growth in job postings (162%). Technologists with working knowledge of initial project ideation, team workflows, cloud, QA and final rollout to customers have a distinct advantage in this environment.”
In terms of core technical skills, the programming languages of SQL, Python, Java and AWS are often mentioned in job postings for organizations across the country.
“The continued primacy of SQL, which is used to manage and query relational databases, speaks to organizations’ need to maintain and analyze vast stores of data for numerous uses,” says Dice.com.
Top 50 Tech Skills by Job Posting Volume
Increase from 1H 2021 to 1H 2022
Considered for growth, Dice.com highlights several up-and-coming skills employers are seeking: cloud computing, TypeScript, Go and R.
“The latter three are quickly becoming integral languages in many organizations’ tech stacks, used for everything from data analytics (R) to cloud-based applications (Go) to a JavaScript substitute (TypeScript). Based on the rising number of job postings requesting these skills, these may enjoy increased adoption over the next several years,” the report says.
Top 15 Tech Skills by Job Posting Growth
Increase from 1H 2021 to 1H 2022
METHODOLOGY
Dice examined job post data from Lightcast, which maintains a database of more than 1 billion current and historical worldwide job postings. The company pulled its U.S. dataset on July 6, analyzing postings for “information technology.” For the list of top employers, Dice.com used the above criteria, filtering for job postings that only derive from employer sites.
See the full report here.
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