Hi,
In practice this is a tricky question and it totally depends on where you are
coming from that is in which industry you are employed, which country, whether
you are an investor, an entrepreneur, etc, etc coz the skills take on job
experience and training to develop (it may be hard for you to begin
constructing a production robot from a lab that's not well facilitated)
Things like microprocessor systems design (System v, VHDL, Verilog, etc) should
be in high demand in the industrialised world.
Mobile development could be in higher demand in the less developed world and
the millitary, things like app translations to local dialects, mobile commerce,
ecg/remote diagnostic transmission, micro finance solutions, pharmaceuticals,
etc
SOA is an integrating platform and definitely should be in high demand, as
larger clouds emerge, which need customers to consume their services.
Parallel computing, robotics, neural nets, etc also should be in great demand
in specific parts of the world, as computing gets more and more humanized.
Economics and financial systems programming for example stock prediction,
economic triggers and indicators, etc should also be in demand, but still in
specific parts of the world as economic integration becomes key.
Security programming should also be in great demand as everyone looks for who
to blame for application faults and faults in the cloud.
System testing should be another area.
Green Energy should also be another area worth looking into and how computing
could benefit it.
All in all, i think the solid programming skills on which all systems anchor
are in great demand, but the specific industry skills depend on so many factors
especially geo-location: Areas with low production levels are most likely to
need system administrators and teachers/trainers.
Quoting Robert Muwanga <[email protected]>:
> Hi All,
> I was asked an intriguing question the other day and was hoping to seek
> your wisdom on the matter. Its common for new developers to ask "What are
> the most demanded for programming languages currently in the market" and a
> ton of websites and forums emerge saying Java, C#, Python, etc. (with most
> of the time a lot of flame throwing and table-bashing programmers demanding
> that their language of choice is the best and most in demand). However, one
> that is rarely asked is which niche programming skills are in demand.
> Typical example would be things like kernel development, device driver
> development, parallel programming, etc. However, I haven't come across a
> ranking or salary scale that presents a picture on such demand. The thing
> is that we know that such niche skills are prized mostly due to their
> complexity but they are rarely talked about and which industry have
> desperate need for such skills.
> So what I wanted to ask, have any of you come across such information or
> have an opinion on those hotly demanded for niche skills?
>
Kawalya Davis
Programmes Manager
Donald IT Solutions Ltd
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