According to ManpowerGroup, the information technology skills gap is growing. This means that while there are plenty of job openings, there are too few individuals with the skills to qualify them for these jobs. In the IT area the main problem is not the volume of available talent but the high level and industry specific skills needed to complete certain tasks necessary for most positions.

LinkedIn developed a survey where it reveals that the IT skills most commonly mentioned in job postings are the following:

1. Cloud computing
2. Data mining
3. Mobile development
4. Network security
5. Middleware and integration software

Considering that many of the jobs which are in the spotlight right now did not exist a few years ago, continued education and investment in building the skills of the current workforce to meet the demands of today’s employers could reduce the skills gap and improve time-to-fill over time.

Focusing on the technology sector there are certainly more highly specialized skills in high demand across many areas of this ever evolving industry. The IT industry is unique in that it has a presence great or small in most other industries around the globe. Skills that are on the hot list this year are vast, however, the most in demand at the moment are the ones linked to software development, information security, database administration and development, Cloud and Virtualization, IT operations and Governance, Big Data and Data Science, and Networking.

Source: ManpowerGroup