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Tech's Winning (and Losing) Jobs in 2019
With highly skilled candidates in short supply, employers increasingly turned to internal training and development to meet their burgeoning needs for technical staff during 2018, according to David Foote, chief analyst of Foote Partners LLC.
The renewed focus on internal training, rather than external hiring, has actually helped stabilize compensation, with fewer companies offering big signing bonuses or higher base pay to entice candidates with hard-to-find skills. This trend is set to continue into 2019.
Foote Partners' "2019 IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index" forecasts the roles and key skills that will increase in value (as well as those that might lose ground) in the coming year.
Rising demand is expected for professionals with specialities in Big Data, DB Certifications, Metadata Design and Development, Hbase, Data Science Quantitative Analysis/Regression Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Cybersecurity.
Tech roles that could face headwinds or even experience a decline in market value in 2019 are Systems Administrators, Production Programmers, and Traditional DBAs
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