Posted on 04/25/2016 1:35:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the tech industry, one day a skill is hot, the next it's not. IT professionals spend a lot of their career learning, training, and trying to keep up.
Job hunting site Dice prides itself on helping IT pros navigate which skills to pursue. It just concluded an analysis of its database of 80,000+ tech jobs from April 2015 through April 2016 to determine the fastest-growing skills based on job openings.
We then cross-checked those skills against Dice's annual salary survey, published in February, which offered the average salary for jobs using those particular skills in 2015.
The good news? All of them are part of jobs that command average salaries of over $110,000.
No. 8: Cassandra, job openings up 32%, worth $147,811
Cassandra is a special kind of database called a noSQL database, which is part of the big data trend. NoSQL databases can handle massive amounts of data, spread across cheaper, low-end servers.
Cassandra was born at Facebook, but Facebook released it as a free and open source project and today it is used at companies including Apple, Comcast, Instagram, Spotify, eBay, Rackspace, and Netflix.
No. 7: Hive, up 32%, worth $129,400
Hive is another skill in high demand as part of the big data phenom, particularly a big data tech called Hadoop.
Hadoop is software to store all kinds of data across many low-cost computer servers. Hive provides a way to extract information from Hadoop using the same kind of traditional methods used by regular databases. (In geek speak: it gives Hadoop a database query interface).
No. 6: Cloud computing, up 33%, worth $112,972
Enterprises are increasingly using shared, rented computer servers, software, and storage accessed over the internet from companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
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What’s even more frightening is the H1B workers that are brought in to work cyber security. Can we all feel safe with foreigners handling our personal information?
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