GET or OUT! These six "hot" IT skills will become a powerful tool for salary increase and job change in 2018

This is the best of times, and also the worst of times. This is especially true for IT people. If you don’t find the right skill path and continue learning, you will soon be abandoned by the surging technological trends and times, and the outcome will be worse than that of laid-off workers.

Recently, after analyzing the job search traffic in the past two years, the technology recruitment website Indeed predicted the demand trend of the IT industry in 2018 and gave the most popular IT skills forecast in 2018:

1. React

React is a JavaScript library for developing UI user interfaces, maintained by Facebook, Instagram and other companies and independent developers. In 2017, the Ract Project was the second most popular project on GitHub with the most contributors. React is also developing rapidly, and it is the IT skill with the fastest growth in keywords searched by job seekers on Indeed in 2017. Especially for front-end developers, React has become an indispensable core skill.

Azure and AWS

Comment: Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's AWS are both popular public cloud platforms, providing a large number of rich services and applications ranging from PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, as well as databases, storage, IoT, artificial intelligence, etc. As more and more companies begin to migrate to cloud computing, Azure (widely used in Python to develop web applications) and AWS-related cloud computing configuration, management, development and other skills will continue to be popular.

3. Active Security Certification Expert (Penetration Testing)

Comment: No one doubts that the information security job market will continue to be hot, among which active defense skills such as penetration testing are the most sought-after. For IT talents who are rushing into the field of penetration testing, it is best to obtain relevant authoritative certificates, such as the Active Security Certified Professional (OSCP).

Spark

Comment: Big data and artificial intelligence are the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, so they are naturally not absent from this list. Apache Spark is the most popular big data processing framework today. It is generally believed that Spark's performance and speed are better than MapReduce in all aspects, and it is easier to use. In addition, Spark already has a large community of users and contributors, which means that Spark is more in line with the requirements of the next generation of low-latency, real-time processing, and iterative computing big data applications, and has a tendency to replace MapReduce.

5. AngularJS

Similar to React, which is backed by Facebook, AngularJS is also an open source JavaScript front-end web development framework supported by a giant, maintained by Google and a large developer community. AngularJS greatly improves the functionality of HTML and supports the development of full-featured web applications.

6. R language

Comment: The open source R language has become the mainstream language for data mining, statistical analysis and big data application development. R is not a code concocted in an ivory tower, but a product of a community of analysts and programmers. This community has created thousands of plug-ins for processing various data sets. In addition, the strong support of data warehouse manufacturers such as Oracle and Teradata is also the reason why R language skills are so popular.