2018-12-17 17:59 |
The LinkedIn 2018 Emerging Job Results showcased the employment opportunities developing most quickly for US-based professionals.
This year, the results suggest that blockchain developer is the fastest growing job in the country, followed by machine learning engineer.
The exponential growth in the blockchain development market could be fueled by the rise in the use of blockchain technology, especially amongst tech giants.
Who Is Looking for Blockchain Developers?The job for blockchain developer experienced 33x growth in 2018 and companies like IBM, Chainyard and ConsenSys are on the lookout for these experts.
The top skills in demand are Solidity (the language used by Ethereum), blockchain, Ethereum, cryptocurrency, and Node.js.
The industries looking for these developers are information technology & services, internet, and computer software.
The demand is highest in San Francisco, New York City and Atlanta.
The second highest job demand is for machine learning engineers, which experienced 12x growth this year.
Employers like Intel, NVIDIA, and Apple, are looking for skills like machine learning, deep learning, NLP, Apache Spark, and Tensorflow.
The demand for machine learning engineers is high in San Francisco, Denver, and Austin.
Companies like Oracle, Avaya, and AT&T are looking for application sales executives, a job which experienced 8x growth this year.
The demand is high in cities like Boston, Austin, and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The top skills required for the job are SaaS, solution selling, cloud applications, and human capital management.
Machine Learning and Data Science ExplosionMany of the jobs on the LinkedIn list are related to machine learning and data science which suggests that these sectors will experience explosive growth in the years to come.
LinkedIn also commented that artificial intelligence is here to stay and there will be continued growth in fields related to AI.
LinkedIn wrote:
“This year, six out of the 15 emerging jobs are related in some way to AI, and our research shows that skills related to AI are starting to infiltrate every industry, not just tech. In fact, AI skills are among the fastest-growing skills on LinkedIn, and globally saw a 190% increase from 2015 to 2017.”
Blockchain Developer Is the Fastest Growing Job in the US, LinkedIn Report Reveals was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
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