From Accenture To Microsoft To IBM, Techies With These Skills Are Being Hired

As words like 'cost cuts' and 'penny pinching' have turned into sound management strategy rather than one-off events in the IT industry, the demand for automation in monotonous tasks has grown. Indian tech firms are paying more attention to upgrading the skills of their existing employees to meet clients' demands for more specialised skill sets. Niche specialisations which combine the use of data analytics, cloud computing and digital marketing are in demand. In the rapidly changing IT sector India's tech workers are learning new programming languages, cloud computing and big data analysis to enhance their job performance and move up in a company's value chain.

While cloud computing technologies remain the most popular picks for IT employees looking to add to their technical skills, business analytics and machine learning skills are also in high demand by employers, according to Simplilearn Career Data Labs, an online learning platform. As today's tech workers realise that one has to increase one's knowledge base to ensure future employability, here is a list of top ten tech skills that will make any tech worker stand out and which companies are hiring:

Spark: Oracle, Capgemeni, Mphasis, Citi and Tech Mahindra are looking for people with proficiency in Spark - software which enables firms to sift through large amounts of data stored on the cloud. Engineers trained in this technology earn an average salary of 14.6 lakh per annum.  

AWS: Amazon Web Services is the most demanded skill in 2017 with companies like Accenture, IBM, Wipro and Amazon Development Centre looking to hire AWS specialists. AWS refers to a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform. AWS tech engineers earn about 13.8 lakh per year on an average.