Top Emerging Jobs (And Skills) For 2020 According To LinkedIn

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I highly value LinkedIn’s research and published reports. With over 706 million users, the company has a treasure trove of data about jobs, employability skills, and the future of work. So, I was eager to review LinkedIn’s recently released “2020 Emerging Jobs Report”. In this report, LinkedIn identified these top 15 jobs as having the largest rates of hiring growth over the last five years:

  1. Artificial Intelligence Specialist

  2. Robotics Engineer

  3. Data Scientist

  4. Full Stack Engineer

  5. Site Reliability Engineer

  6. Customer Success Specialist

  7. Sales Development Representative

  8. Data Engineer

  9. Behavioral Health Technician

  10. Cybersecurity Specialist

  11. Back End Developer

  12. Chief Revenue Officer

  13. Cloud Engineer

  14. JavaScript Developer

  15. Product Owner

For educators, and for our company, such data is instrumental in helping to decide which career exploration opportunities to provide to students. We strive to expose students to STEM jobs that are in high demand. Therefore, we use emerging job data, such as this, to prioritize our product roadmap.

We also place a significant importance on high demand job skills as such skills are what students will need to qualify for the jobs of the future. Therefore, I was very pleased to see that LinkedIn included the top skills most important for each of the emerging jobs. The large majority of skills were technical with some essential (aka soft) skills also mentioned.

Of particular interest to me were the skills applicable to multiple jobs because I want students to build skills that are transferable across many job titles. Two of the programming skills mentioned most frequently were JavaScript and Python (which BTW are in line with skill building recommendations we have made in past blog posts). Some of the other skills mentioned in multiple emerging jobs were Amazon Web Services, Machine Learning, and Software-As-A-Service.

You may review the entire report to further study the top job skills. Which of these skills are already integrated into your curriculum? How does your school use such job data to plan future course offerings? We’d welcome hearing from you via our Twitter feed (@Couragion).


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