The 20 fastest rising and sharpest falling technical skills of the past 5 years
Docker saw the most significant percentage increase, while Clojure saw the largest decrease, Indeed Hiring Lab thought.
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Indeed, Hiring Lab issued a report on Tuesday identifying the fastest growing and sharpest falling technical skills of the past five years. Docker, an open-source utility, topped the list of fastest-growing skills, with a 4162% increase from 2014 to 2019, and the Clojure programming language experienced the sharpest decline, with a fall of 80% at the same time, the report found.
Indeed’s fastest rising technical skills report used more than 500 technical terms to search Indeed’s vacancies between September 2014 and September 2019. Indeed, recently found the top 20 technical skills of the last five years, but this report focuses on those with the highest rates of growth and decline.
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The report defined technical skills “broadly, including specific software products such as Oracle, programming languages such as Python and technical disciplines such as artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT).”
Fastest growing technical skills from 2014 to 2019
Here are the fastest growing technical skills of the past five years, along with everyone’s percentage change.
- Docker (4162%)
- IoT (1994%)
- Ansible (1292%)
- Kafka (1216%)
- Azure (1107%)
- Spark (1068%)
- AI (701%)
- Redshift (564%)
- Swift (481%)
- Learn machine (439%)
- Angular (427%)
- AWS (418%)
- Elastic search (333%)
- ServiceOW (333%)
- Tableau (275%)
- Gradle (254%)
- Jenkins (251%)
- Splunk (238%)
- Scala (235%)
- Jira (232%)
Docker blew the other technical skills out of the water. After being developed in 2013, the containerization software was no longer present in job descriptions in 2014.
The emergence of data science is responsible for the growth of many skills on the list. Spark, Azure, Redshift and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are all used for data processing and, according to the report, increased fivefold.
AI and machine learning, both widely used in data science, also benefited from the dominance of data science. Data analysis software Tableau and programming language Scala also emerged in the top 20 list and acted as another indicator of the popularity of data science, the report said.
The report also recognized some of the most advanced technical skills between 2018 and 2018, with PyTorch, GraphQL and Kotlin having the greatest growth.
Although these skills all had good years in the company, not all technical skills were equally happy.
The sharpest decline in technical skills from 2014 to 2019
Here are the technical skills with the sharpest decline in the last five years, along with everyone’s percentage change.
- Clojure (-80%)
- Ejb (-73%)
- Servlets (-71%)
- Jsp (-69%)
- Solaris (-68%)
- Suspension strut (-68%)
- Qtp (-67%)
- Vba (-66%)
- Flash (-65%)
- Grails (-64%)
- HP quality center (-63%)
- Windows XP (-63%)
- Weblogic (-62%)
- Xhtml (-60%)
- Clearcase (-59%)
- Aix (-58%)
- Sybase (-56%)
- Xslt (-56%)
- Cocoa (-54%)
- Ajax (-54%)
As technological trends fade and flow, the report says technical tools are constantly being replaced by newer, better versions. The technical skill that saw the biggest dive on the list was the Clojure programming language, probably due to the increase in the use of Scala and other languages on the first list, the report found.
The report also identified the skills with the sharpest decline between 2018 and 2019, with Firefox being awarded as a winner (-47%) decline.
The fluctuation of technical skills reveals the ever-evolving and changing nature of the technology industry, indicating how important it is to keep skills sharp and updated, the report found.
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