Top 5 Online IT Skills for 2017 Learn to Improve

Rise for skilled IT intellectual capital is everywhere to have accurate information for the business & the customers when required. Companies are looking for highly competitive humans who can solve their solve complex problems of modern times & scale the business in modern times. Recently, I was reading Linkedin skills analytics report (comprehensive analysis based on score points for hiring and recruiting on their site) which gives good information for Top 5 IT skills in 2017.

So what are the skills that are sought in 2017 that you need to look to be competitive?

5. SEO/SEM Marketing

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization - are sets of techniques & content that companies use to stand on the top of search engines ranking when their customer searches for related keywords. SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing - these includes paid or unpaid techniques to boost traffic on the site to increase flow inside sales funnels. As both SEO & SEM directly impacts the traffic on your website along with the leads generation - human capital requirements having SEO/SEM skills are on rising. If you want to be expert in SEO/SEM - you should learn tools like Google Page insights, Moz, Keywordtools.io, GTMetrix & Google Trends.

4. User Interface Design / User Experience

User Experience is all about designing software / website & apps interface to solve your customer problem & make it maximum usable. Employers are looking for Great Designers that are capable of making simple designs to sell their products whether it's an E-Commerce store or Airline booking system etc. The demand is on the rise since more companies are getting aware of the importance of user interface designs. The most powerful skills one can acquire in User Interface is to learn prototype, wireframing tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator. More recently online software like Sketch & Invision are becoming more popular also.

3. Mobile Applications Development

On an average combined number of users from mobiles & tablets have surpassed the desktop, There is a continuous rise in the web & mobile application development for personal or work use. Mobile applications are making the workforce more remote to make companies more efficient. On the other way around - they are giving the customer to purchase the products of companies in mobile mode also. Some of the skills that you can learn in Mobile Development are Native Development on Andriod via Eclipse & iOS via Swift/Xcode. Hybrid platforms famous for Mobile Apps development like Ionic, Mobile Angular UI, Appcelerator, Titanium, Kendo UI & Phonegap.

2. Web Development & Architecture

Every human, brand or company needs an online presence to share their products, ideas & knowledge with their customers. The need for awesome website programmers are always on the rise to develop such systems with optimisation & present information to the customer in most perfect manner. More companies are looking for solutions to make their website creating more sales for them being optimised, secure & responsive to all the devices. The Skills you can learn in this area are different architectures like LAMP stack / MEAN stack / CMS / ECommerce systems development which requires specialisation in both Front & Backend development.

1. Data Mining & Presentation

All modern companies are data driven - having huge clusters of data of their customer preferences, patterns, likes & dislikes. Companies are looking for data scientists to classify data, analyse it & do predictability to create more sales via it. All modern companies values data & need people who can effectively give deep information out of data by data visualisation techniques in the most simplist manner. If you love data science - you have to get a grip of tools & languages like R Programming, Python, database language like SQL. Along with that - you should be passionate about statistical tests, likelihood estimators, calculus along with Machine learning.