Hottest IT jobs for year 2012
Posted in Android, Apps, Blackberry, iPhone, Smartphones
Even though cloud computing raised some gloomy predictions that the demand for IT specialists will shrink greatly, year 2012 is promising to become quite a success for them. Some rather competent experts even claim that cloud computing only added more career opportunities for IT professionals. Anyway, IT job market experts foretell serious boost for 2012, as well as aggressive hiring, because companies will be vying for IT talents. What great news for tough professionals! Besides, experts analyzed supply and demand in the sphere and made up a list of IT jobs that will be in greatest demand and will command the highest salaries in 2012. The best thing about it is that lots of these jobs are also serious fun. Guess what position is ranked No 1!
1. Mobile Application Developers
Mobile apps developers are obviously the hottest commodity in IT nowadays. The experts agree that this job will keep its first place during all the 2012, because there is a strong tendency among companies to adapt their Websites and apps for smartphones and tablets. By the way, these days we are one hair away from hitting an immense grandiose number of mobile apps existing. The search and analytics engine for the mobile marketplace Mobilewalla, submitted its own chart of mobile applications and at the moment this article was being written we had 3000 apps left before making it 1 million of apps. If you take your time and follow this chart checking it from time to time two days in a row, you might notice that the number grows drastically every couple of hours.
Another quite competent source providing objective insight on virtually any area of IT – Gartner – has made a few predictions of its own relating IT careers. Well, according to Gartner by 2015, mobile application development projects designed for smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4-to-1. Today they are on par with each other. All in all, it’s obvious that the luckiest employees ever are mobile apps developers!
2. Software Developers
Mobile developers are followed by software developers who took the second place.
Second place is nothing to be upset about. After all, programmers are still in demand and that matters a lot. Companies need their share of Java, .NET, C#, SharePoint, and Web application developers.
3rd, 4th, etc. places
The third place goes to user experience designers, as the majority of apps whether for PCs or mobile devices are customer facing, these guys are simply indispensable.
IT Security Professionals are in the fourth place. The fifths place is taken by Data Warehouse Architects, Analysts and Developers. Infrastructure Professionals are ranked No 6.
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