The Most In-Demand IT Pro Roles In Australia

Looking for a new job or thinking about retraining? LinkedIn has analysed activity by members to identify the most sought-after skills in Australia, and the list is utterly dominated by IT roles.

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LinkedIn conducted the study by analysing the skills and experience of its 330 million members, and correlating those with members who had either been in contact with recruiters or started a new job in the past year. For Australia, these were the 25 “hottest skills”:

1. Statistical analysis and data mining
2. Middleware and integration software
3. SAP ERP systems
4. Storage systems and management
5. SEO/SEM marketing
6. Business intelligence
7. Mobile development
8. Perl/Python/Ruby
9. Network and information security
10. Recruiting
11. Java development
12. Non-profit, fundraising and grant making
13. Computer graphics and animation
14. Web architecture and development framework
15. Data engineering and data warehousing
16. HR benefits and compensation
17. C/C++
18. User interface design
19. Marketing campaign management
20. Software QA and user testing
21. Economics
22. Mac, Linux and Unix systems
23. Foreign language translation
24. Database management and software
25. Social media marketing

Only a handful of those skills aren’t in the IT field. As ever, analytics top the charts, but core system management skills and developer ability also rank highly. Despite salary variations, it’s a good time to be in tech.

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