Latest Technology Trends

2.27 million new roles have been added in the year 2018 hosted by the very strong job market, as per the reports of Glassdoor Job market trends. One of the most important and enduring IT job market trends for CIOs to monitor is the continued chasm between the technology talent demand and supply. It is predicted that there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs but only 400,000 new computer science graduates all over the world. In the near term, there are other movements afoot in the IT talent market from skyrocketing demand for open source talent to the complete rethinking of the key IT leadership roles.

Now, let us look at the latest technology trends that will drive a new path to the IT jobs in the coming year as below:

• Edge computing

The adoption of cloud computing is still growing as more and more organizations are migrating to the cloud solutions. As the quantity of data we are dealing with continues to increase, we have realized the shortcoming of cloud computing in some situations. Edge computing is being designed to solve some of those problems as a way to bypass the latency caused by cloud computing and getting the data to data center or processing.

Edge Computing

Edge computing can be basically used to process the time-sensitive data in a remote location with limited or no connectivity to a centralized location. In such a situation, edge computing can act like mini data centers. This will increase the use of internet as the devices increase. By the year 2022, the global edge computing market is expected to reach $6.72billion.

• Cyber security

Cyber security might not seem like emerging technology which has given its existence for a while, but it is evolving just as other technologies are. The malevolent hackers who are trying to illegally access data are not going to give up any time soon and they will begin to find ways to get through even the toughest security measures. Three of the advancements that led to its adaptive nature are hardware authentication, cloud technology, and deep learning.

As proof of the strong need for cyber security professionals, the number of cyber security jobs is grown three times faster than other tech jobs. As the results, it is predicted that we will have 3.5 million unfilled cyber security jobs by the year 2021. There are many cyber security jobs and roles which can range from the ethical hacker to security engineer promising a career path who wants to get stuck into this domain.

• Machine learning

A critical subset of artificial intelligence is machine learning, another key emerging technology that has been helpful in the new IT job industry. This is essentially referred to computer’s ability to learn new thing which it was not initially programmed for. As unbelievable as it might sound to those who are not so familiar with the machines and the tech world, this is a regular protocol for them.

With the emerging technologies changing professional industries such as banking, e-commerce development, healthcare, and education, staying up to date with the latest trends which help you to get a better understanding of your chosen industry and will make you more competitive candidate in that particular field.

• Artificial Intelligence

Since a long time, artificial intelligence technology has been in the buzz, but it continues to be a trend to watch because of its effects on how we live and play in the early stages. Experts say that the automation will eliminate 73 million more jobs by 2030; however, the automation is creating the job as well.

Jobs will be created in the development, programming, testing, support, and maintenance to name a few and artificial intelligence services are one such aspect from that. In addition to it, AI is used to schedule trains, as business risk, predict maintenance and improve the energy efficiency among many other money saving tasks.

• Internet of things (IoT)

Although there are many things which are built with Wi-Fi connectivity so that they can be connected to the internet, i.e. Internet of things (IoT), IoT enables devices, home appliances, cars and many more things to be connected to an exchange data over the internet. There are a number of IoT devices which have reached 8.4 billion in the year 2017 and are expected to reach 30 billion devices by the year 2020.