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Updated: Jan 27, 2017, 05.00 PM
You can beat the gathering
gloom in job market by equipping yourself with the latest tech skills.In a bleak employment scenario,
evolving technology has opened up a vast space as
businesses chase innovative
solutions.
The new-age skill sets such as
natural language processing are in high demand and promise market-beating rates.
Data from Upwork, a website
that matches freelancers with employers, reveals demand for
software engineers who program
computers to understand human speech grew faster than
workers with any other skill.
Voice-activated virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri and
Amazon's Echo devices have been
made possible by natural language processing.
According to a Bloomberg report
on the Upwork data, freelancers who know natural language processing earned an average
hourly rate of $123 per hour, and the total amount that they billed increased by 2,300 per cent
last quarter from a year earlier. "The nascent boom in these jobs also foreshadows the employment
that advances in artificial intelligence could create, even while
they replace other human tasks," says the Bloomberg report.
The 20 fastest growing skills on line..
Demand for these skills surges on freelancing website net
work.
Rank Skills
1 Natural Language processing
2 SWIFT
3 Tableau
4 Amazon
Marker place Web services (MWS)
5 Stripe
6 Instagram
Marketing
7 My
SQL Programming
8 Unbounce
9 Social
Media Management
10 Angular
JS
11 Business
Consulting
12 Machine
Learning
13 Brand
Strategy
14 3D
rendering
15 Information
Security
16 R
Development
17 Node.js
Development
18 User
Experience design
19 Bluetooth
20 Zendesk
Customer Support
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