The growth in demand for expertise in data related fields has made the perspective of the future job market in line with such an interest. As it can be observed in the “World Economic Forum report”, the largest portion of technologies that companies are willing to adopt in the future concerns either data analysis or artificial intelligence.
Out of the top five technologies likely to be adopted by companies by 2022, four are covered by the different EDISS tracks (big data analytics, IoT, machine learning and cloud computing).
On the other hand, a recent report by “LinkedIn” reveals that top 7 hard skills that are covered by companies in 2018, are primarily in the fields of intelligent software systems, software engineering and data analytics[1].
[1] https://learning.linkedin.com/blog/top-skills/the-skills-companies-need-most-in-2018–and-the-courses-to-get-t