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10 Hottest IT Skills for 2015

December 12, 2014

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"The pace of job growth in IT may be slowing down, but it’s still moving at a strong clip.

A healthy 24% of the respondents to Computerworld’s 2015 Forecast survey said that their companies plan to add more IT employees in the year ahead. While down from 32% and 33% in the previous two years, the fact that a number of employers still anticipate growth indicates that the prospects for expansion in the IT ranks are good.

Moreover, the kinds of technical skills in high demand are those needed for enterprises in expansion mode, suggesting that organizations are continuing to invest in their IT infrastructures.

'There are large initiatives [underway], and you have to have the people to get those done,' says Jason Hayman, market research manager at TEKsystems, an IT staffing and consulting firm.

Here’s a look at the 10 IT skills that the 194 IT executives who responded to our survey said will be most in demand heading into 2015."

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