In the current scenario, when jobs in the IT sector are experiencing a downward trend, there are a number of areas where employers and recruiters are posting quite a number of jobs:
• Systems development
• IT and telecoms management
• Programming
• Systems design
• Networking
• Business Intelligence
This is the time for IT professionals to seek new skills and polish their current ones in the areas of high demand. Those who are currently employed are advised to stay on with their jobs as the recession is still not over. Recession proof IT skills for the year 2009 include SAP, WAP, COM, Active X and Sage, SQL, C, C#, .NET, SQL SVR, Java, Oracle, ASP, C++ and Unix.
TechRepublic has issued this year’s IT Skills and Salary Report where you can find out about IT employment trends, areas of growth and decline, skills that are in demand, highest-paying job roles, highest-paying certifications, and salary ranges broken down by region, job title, and industry.
