Most Desired Tech Skills in 2021

Artificial Intelligence

The machines haven't taken over. Not yet at least. However, they are seeping their way into our lives, affecting how we live, work and entertain ourselves. From voice-powered personal assistants like Siri and Alexa, to more underlying and fundamental technologies such as behavioral algorithms, suggestive searches and autonomously-powered self-driving vehicles boasting powerful predictive capabilities, there are several examples and applications of artificial intelligence in use today.

Machine Learning

Machine learning is used to build algorithms that can receive the input data and use statistical analysis to predict the output, based upon the type of data available. These machine learning algorithms are classified as supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning where all these algorithm has various limitless applications such as Image Recognition, Voice Recognition, Predictions, Video Surveillance, Social Media Platform, Spam and Malware, Customer support, Search engine, Applications, Fraud and Preferences, etc.

Data Science & Analytics

Data science is the field of applying advanced analytics techniques and scientific principles to extract valuable information from data for business decision-making, strategic planning and other uses. It's increasingly critical to businesses: The insights that data science generates help organizations increase operational efficiency, identify new business opportunities and improve marketing and sales programs, among other benefits. Ultimately, they can lead to competitive advantages over business rivals.

Data Engineering

Data engineering is a set of operations aimed at creating interfaces and mechanisms for the flow and access of information. It takes dedicated specialists – data engineers – to maintain data so that it remains available and usable by others. In short, data engineers set up and operate the organization’s data infrastructure preparing it for further analysis by data analysts and scientists.

Data Visualization

Our eyes are drawn to colors and patterns. We can quickly identify red from blue, square from circle. Our culture is visual, including everything from art and advertisements to TV and movies.

Data visualization is another form of visual art that grabs our interest and keeps our eyes on the message. When we see a chart, we quickly see trends and outliers. If we can see something, we internalize it quickly. It’s storytelling with a purpose. If you’ve ever stared at a massive spreadsheet of data and couldn’t see a trend, you know how much more effective a visualization can be.

Network and Information Security (Cybersecurity)

This is self-explanatory, but i will put the dictionary definition for your convenience.

Network security is the process of taking physical and software preventative measures to protect the underlying networking infrastructure from unauthorized access, misuse, malfunction, modification, destruction, or improper disclosure, thereby creating a secure platform for computers, users, and programs to perform their permitted critical functions within a secure environment.

Cloud Computing : AWS/Azure/Google Cloud

Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services you use, helping you lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently, and scale as your business needs change.

We have three main providers of cloud computing services offering similar services with different names- AWS, MS Azure, Google Cloud.

Extended Reality (Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality)

Extended reality (XR) combines augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality―meaning that nearly all forms of technologically-supplemented reality fall under the XR umbrella. Like its subsets, extended reality is a relatively new term, but XR is rapidly making its way into industries and supplementing human reality in unimaginable ways. However, these separate technologies require different levels of processing, information collection, storage and power.

Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. Thanks to the arrival of super-cheap computer chips and the ubiquity of wireless networks, it's possible to turn anything, from something as small as a pill to something as big as an aeroplane, into a part of the IoT. Connecting up all these different objects and adding sensors to them adds a level of digital intelligence to devices that would be otherwise dumb, enabling them to communicate real-time data without involving a human being. The Internet of Things is making the fabric of the world around us more smarter and more responsive, merging the digital and physical universes.

UI/UX Design

Yes, this job is never going away. Well...up to some extent, it will stay.

User experience (UX) design is the process design teams use to create products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users. This involves the design of the entire process of acquiring and integrating the product, including aspects of branding, design, usability and function.

In Layman's terms, UI is designing a User Interface to enable the user to interact with the business logic of an application.

What are you waiting for, choose the one that excites you the most. You can pretty much learn anything online these day, and set yourself up for making those big bucks !