Original post by Jonathan Greig via TechRepublic.
In the past year, an astounding 588,504 technology job descriptions included “knowledge of software development principles” according to RS Components.
Workers in the tech sector are constantly trying to keep up with the times and update their most profitable skills to stay ahead of the game.
RS Components released an in-depth study on what tech skills are most in-demand, finding that software development was the most sought-after skill.
“The technology sector has added 59,000 jobs in 2019 so far, and alongside the high number of job vacancies available, the skills that employees need to have has changed drastically,” according to the study.”Technology is continually evolving and the skills employees require to do jobs needs to line up to changing technology too.”
RS Components found “knowledge of software development principles” was featured 588,504 times in technology job descriptions he past year. Skills revolving around JavaScript and jQuery came in second, being featured in 407,459 job descriptions.
Java, SQL databases and programming, and web development rounded out the top five most in-demand tech skills companies were looking for.
“We can also see across four job types which skills are continually coming out as the most popular and are therefore the skills that the technology sector as a whole requires,” according to the study
“For example, we can see that overall ‘software development principles’, ‘SQL databases and programming’ and ‘JavaScript and jQuery’ are the top three skills overall that are included in job descriptions and are therefore the most desired by employers when recruiting for positions in the tech sector.”
