Hottest and in-demand skills

[Ashok Bakthavathsalam]

What are some of the hottest in-demand technical skills that are expected of fresh or novice programmers in India?

Also, is there a website which tracks this information on a consistent basis?

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[Venkat Mangudi]

Interesting idea to track this on a website. However, the technical skills that are hot are typically difficult to judge. How do we define hot? By pay, or by demand Vs need?

--Venkat

[Dorai Thodla]

Here is what I do for analysis of US demand. 

1. Use Indeed.com

2. Do searches on jobs that pay > $100,000 per year

3. Get an RSS feed of the result of the searches

4. Create a tag cloud (of the skills)

5. Look at specific job trends - look at both absolute and relative trends.

You can directly jump to 5 if you have a specific industry. For example, take a look at this:

java,c++,c#, php, ruby, python Job Trends | Indeed.com

absolute - http://bit.ly/xk09PE

relative -   http://bit.ly/AcXNYW

Unfortunately indeed does not support trends feature for Indian jobs. But I think we can build it if we need to for the top 20 skills (by the method I mentioned above in 5 steps)

Here are some variations I can think of:

1. Look at the top 10 IT giants and track only their job pages

2. Look at the monster/hotjobs postings

3. Look at Indeed Indian jobs (Indeed claims to aggregate thousands of job sites)

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[Venkat Mangudi]

That's the challenge, really. The top 10 Indian companies do not do interesting work. They are concerned more with outsourced work. And the job that pays them more. The most interesting work is done by startups, but they don't hire by droves and neither do they pay much. Indeed.com and the like work very well for the US market where the pay changes only slightly with experience. In India, because of the poaching practices that is prevalent in the Industry, pay is more often than not very arbitrary and based on demand.

Just my two cents.

-Venkat

[Dorai Thodla]

Over 80% of the Indian industry does boring work, not just the top 10 Indian companies.

Dorai
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