{"id":430,"date":"2012-01-12T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/?p=430"},"modified":"2020-01-27T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:07:07","slug":"top-it-skills-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/2012\/01\/12\/top-it-skills-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Top IT Skills for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to a recent\u00a0<a title=\"Computerworld\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Computerworld<\/em><\/a> survey<\/strong>, the top IT job skills employers will be seeking in 2012 in order of demand are:<br \/>\n1. <em>Programming and Application Development<\/em> (Especially Web development &amp; Mobile application development)<br \/>\n2. <em>Project Management<\/em> (Especially those who also have skills as Business Analysts)<br \/>\n3. <em>Help Desk\/Technical Support<\/em> (Especially those who can support mobile devices)<br \/>\n4. <em>Networking<\/em> (Need fueled in large part by virtualization and cloud computing projects)<br \/>\n5.<em> Business Intelligence<\/em> (Many need SharePoint developers)<br \/>\n6. <em>Data Center<\/em> (IT professionals with backgrounds in data center operations and systems integration, and experts in disaster recovery and business continuity)<br \/>\n7. <em>Web 2.0<\/em> (HTML5, .Net, AJAX and PHP)<br \/>\n8. <em>Security<\/em> (Strong technical security and auditing skills)<br \/>\n9. <em>Telecommunications<\/em> (IP telephony skills)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAccording to the job site <a title=\"Indeed.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indeed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indeed.com<\/a>, the top job posting keywords in the field in recent months include:<br \/>\n1. Social Media (especially social media marketing managers)<br \/>\n2. Platform as a Service (PaaS) (developing programs in the cloud)<br \/>\n3. <a title=\"jQuery\" href=\"http:\/\/jquery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jQuery<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a title=\"Hadoop\" href=\"http:\/\/hadoop.apache.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hadoop<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a title=\"Puppet\" href=\"http:\/\/puppetlabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puppet<\/a> (an automated administrative engine often used in cloud computing)<br \/>\n6. Mobile App Developers<br \/>\n7. Android<br \/>\n8. iOS<br \/>\n9. <a title=\"MongoDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mongodb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MongoDB<\/a><br \/>\n10. HTML5<\/p>\n<p>IT analyst firm <a title=\"Gartner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/\">Gartner<\/a> identifies the following <a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2011\/11\/25\/tomorrows-top-tech-trends\/\">top trends in technology for 2012<\/a>:<br \/>\n1. Media tablets<br \/>\n2. Mobile-centric applications and interfaces<br \/>\n3. Social and contextual user experience<br \/>\n4. Application stores and marketplace<br \/>\n5. The Internet of everything AKA pervasive computing<br \/>\n6. Next-generation analytics<br \/>\n7. Big data<br \/>\n8. In-memory computing (flash memory)<br \/>\n9. Extreme low-energy servers<br \/>\n10. Cloud computing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent\u00a0Computerworld survey, the top IT job skills employers will be seeking in 2012 in order of demand are: 1. Programming and Application Development (Especially Web development &amp; Mobile application development) 2. 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