What will be the most in demand tech candidate skills of 2023?
What will be the most in demand tech candidate skills of 2023?
As we move to the end of 2022, a new year approaches that’s full of unknowns, especially in the world of workplace and people management.
Will remote and hybrid working continue to embed themselves into our collective professional cultures? And as companies fight off the dual issues of the rising cost of living and inflationary pressures on businesses, what material changes will need to be made to help workers - especially the low-paid and younger workers - build careers that are sustainable, well paid and rewarding?
Well, time will tell. What we do know is that the emerging technological trends of 2022 will come to fruition, and the changing mores of work/life will continue to shift as our professional working cultures adapt in the face of digital transformation.
?And the future is very much tech-led, the limits of which are being pushed year by year:
“There are innovations happening right now that are ripped straight from the pages of science fiction. Whether that is robots that can read minds, AI that can create images on their own, holograms, bionic eyes, or other mind-blowing technology”.
With this in mind, what about the people creating the tech? How is this technological innovation manifesting, and what sort of skills will drive this tech future we are so eagerly running towards?
Here are our predictions on what we feel will be the most in-demand tech candidate skills of 2023:
Hard Tech Skills
The foundation of all good tech - be it apps, SaaS platforms, or Blockchain tech - relies on brute hard skills and digital literacy. The fastidious technical know-how that people spend years perfecting will continue to be in incredibly high demand for 2023 as our working and social lives become ever more digital.
?Top Tech Skills of 2023 (in no particular order):
●??????SQL
●??????DevOps
●??????Cloud computing
●??????Power BI
●??????Java/Javascript
●??????React Python
●??????.NET
?Taking a more macro-vision of the tech industry, here are the primary tech methodologies that employers will hold in high regard:
●??????Web development - is vital for emerging economies and countries, as “web development has played a crucial role in developing companies across the world”.
●??????Blockchain - the incredible investment in this emerging sector as “global spending on Blockchain solutions to surge by 235% and hit $14.4bn in 2023”.
●??????Data Visualisation - a vital part of helping people interact and “explore and experience data in ways that enhance their understanding of site content”.
●??????Data Engineering - long-term planning via “data engineering (being) the key to the longer shelf life of your business entity”.
●??????Machine Learning - the power of “data-driven judgments” is made real via machine learning.
●??????Artificial Intelligence - almost everything will be touched by AI, “40% of infrastructure and operations teams will start using automation with AI”.
●??????InfoSec And Cybersecurity - “Businesses come across more significant cybersecurity challenges as technology evolves” - so InfoSec requirements exponentially rise alongside tech innovation.
●??????Low-Code Platforms - when efficiency is key, “crucial but decidedly mundane tasks” can be completed with no tech skills at all via low-code platforms. But, of course, someone has to build them.
●??????Web3-Forward Skills - and when Web3 is referred to as “tomorrow's online ecosystem” you know that we’re sitting on the precipice of something momentous.
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Soft tech skills
Tech-adjacent skills are best described as soft tech skills, and they are increasingly becoming the differentiator between the good and the best in product development and tech innovation.
As Author and Forbes contributor Bernard Marr quotes in his piece Top 16 Essential Soft Skills For The Future Of Work, critical thinking, complex decision-making, emotional intelligence and creativity sit at the top of the list, belying a reliance on just hard tech skills and indicating that interpersonal skills, outside-of-the-box thinking and critical awareness are equally important in the grand scheme of work, innovation and indeed technical creation.
This is because as innovative new tools, like home- or body-based IoT, become more prevalent, and as the borders between digital and analogue - between human and machine - become ever more porous, the ability of workers to think laterally about how tech works to benefit society will become more important.
This is especially important in the case of computing and digital ethics, data collection (and GDPR-like rulings around privacy and data ownership) and our ongoing battle against those who would compromise our network security.
The bottom line.
There is much to look forward to in 2023, not least the opportunities the digital world offers. But the world we want won’t be the world we get unless we cultivate a generation of workers with the skills needed to make our online lives as fruitful, safe and rewarding as possible.
Digital transformation will touch every industry, and every worker in the UK in the coming years. Preparation is key if each worker is to take full advantage of the coming opportunities.
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