25 Hottest Skills of 2014 on LinkedIn

[Syt]

For those seeking to optimize their profile on the network:

http://blog.linkedin.com/2014/12/17/the-25-hottest-skills-that-got-people-hired-in-2014/

Believe it or not, 2014 is almost over and 2015 is right around the corner. With a new year comes new opportunities, and around this time we at LinkedIn are typically asked the following question: "Who's getting hired and what are they doing?"

To get to an answer, we analyzed the skills and experience data in over 330 million LinkedIn member profiles. If your skills fit one of the categories below, there's a good chance you either started a new job or garnered the interest of a recruiter in the past year.



In addition, we took at look at the top skills in several countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, the Netherlands, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each country's top 25 skills are included in a SlideShare below. A few skills trends stood out to us when we reviewed the results.

Investing in STEM. In the ten countries we looked at, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills made up the majority of our top 25 list. While most of these could be labeled as "tech" skills, more traditional STEM skills like mechanical, electrical, and materials engineering made our list in many countries.

Data. Data everywhere. We live in an increasingly data driven world, and businesses are aggressively hiring experts in data storage, retrieval, and analysis. Across the globe, statistics and data analysis skills were highly valued. In the US, India, and France, cloud and distributed computing skills were in particularly high demand.

It pays to know a second language. Internationalization and localization services are valued by companies that operate globally. As such, language translation skills were among the top 25 hottest skills in many countries. But nowhere did they rank higher than in the United States, where in 2010, according to US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, only 18% of Americans claim to speak a language other than English.

Rise of the technical marketer. In 2012, Gartner analyst Laura McLellan predicted that by 2017 CMO's would be spending more on technology than their CIO colleagues. With digital, online, and SEO (search engine optimization) marketing skills in our global top 25 this year, there's strong evidence that this prediction may be coming true.

[Syt]

The U.S. list:



The UK list:



And Canadia:

[Monoriu]

The only one I can remotely claim to have is foreign language translation, and between Chinese and English only 

Everything else are black holes to me

[Caliga]

The only one I can remotely claim to have is foreign language translation, and between Chinese and English only 

Everything else are black holes to me

Stop failing at relevancy please.

[Eddie Teach]

The only one I can remotely claim to have is foreign language translation, and between Chinese and English only 

Everything else are black holes to me

You've been doing a bang-up job at social media marketing.

[mongers]

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. 

[Syt]

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. 

A temporary fad until it can be fully covered by computer programs.

[Admiral Yi]

You've been doing a bang-up job at social media marketing.

[DGuller]

 

[Zanza]

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. 

A temporary fad until it can be fully covered by computer programs.

I am sure these are people that can tell the computer programs what to do. Building a "Big Data" analytic model takes a lot of common sense in addition to mathematical skills, so I don't think these people will be replaced by computers that fast. Intuition etc. plays a role in deciding which data might be linked. It's not just cracking numbers.

[Grey Fox]

The CoOp students( fancy words for interns) have all been claiming on how their university is not teaching them C/C++ enough since they consider it an old & dead programming language.

These schools runners are idiots.

[CountDeMoney]

The only one I can remotely claim to have is foreign language translation, and between Chinese and English only 

Everything else are black holes to me

Stop failing at relevancy please.

HEY NOW

[Caliga]

I knew you'd show up in the thread with guns blazing Seedy 

[CountDeMoney]

Fuck HR Facebook LinkedIn. 

[celedhring]

English to Spanish translating has been one of my steadiest sources of income these past 2-3 years, truth be said.