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Job board lists needed IT skillsets

September 15, 2014

Employment for technology professionals continues to thrive, yet this rising tide of job opportunities for tech pros has not lifted the prospects for all skillsets equally, according to job board operator Dice Holdings Inc. (NYSE: DHX). Skills in Puppet, an open source IT automation tool, and cybersecurity were mentioned the most in job postings over the past year.

The 10 biggest movers year-over-year, skills-wise, based on mentions in job postings:

  • Puppet: 91 percent
  • Cybersecurity: 77 percent
  • Big data: 56 percent
  • NoSQL: 49 percent
  • Salesforce: 43 percent
  • Hadoop: 38 percent
  • JIRA: 35 percent
  • Cloud: 34 percent
  • Information security: 30 percent
  • Python: 21 percent

Dice reported 79,366 tech jobs available as of Sept. 2. This includes: 

  • Full-time positions: 46,561
  • Part-time positions: 1,894
  • Contract positions: 35,473
  • Tele-commuting: 619