{"id":447,"date":"2012-01-19T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/?p=447"},"modified":"2020-01-27T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:07:09","slug":"top-it-skills-for-2012-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/2012\/01\/19\/top-it-skills-for-2012-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Top IT Skills for 2012, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert Half Technology has published<\/strong> their <em><strong>2012 IT Salary Guide<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(worth grabbing a copy of!). They identify the following hot IT skills based on a survey of more than 1,600 CIOs in the United States and Canada:<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 TECH PROFESSIONALS FIRMS WANT NOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Systems and networking engineers<\/strong>: Skills &#8211; Cloud computing, Software as a Service, Virtualization<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developers<\/strong>: Skills &#8211; .NET, Java, PHP, Silverlight, Flex, MySQL and portal technologies such as SharePoint<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quality assurance professionals and business analysts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Data warehousing and business intelligence professionals<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Security professionals<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>TOP TECHNICAL SKILLS IN DEMAND<\/strong><\/em> (after the break&#8230;)<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>TOP TECHNICAL SKILLS IN DEMAND<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px\">\n<li>64% Network administration<\/li>\n<li>51% Database management<\/li>\n<li>46% Desktop support<\/li>\n<li>42% Windows administration<\/li>\n<li>38% Wireless network management<\/li>\n<li>35% Web development\/website design<\/li>\n<li>28% Telecommunications support<\/li>\n<li>25% Virtualization<\/li>\n<li>22% Business intelligence<\/li>\n<li>15% ERP implementation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Half Technology has published their 2012 IT Salary Guide\u00a0(worth grabbing a copy of!). They identify the following hot IT skills based on a survey of more than 1,600 CIOs in the United States and Canada: 5 TECH PROFESSIONALS FIRMS WANT NOW Systems and networking engineers: Skills &#8211; Cloud computing, Software as a Service, Virtualization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3868],"tags":[3970],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-skills","tag-job-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}