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Digital & IT Skills Report: 552% Increase in Demand for Blockchain
Despite the “crypto winter” that disrupted the cryptocurrency market late last year, the demand for workers skilled in its underlying technology, blockchain, is up 552% in 2022.
That’s a key takeaway from a new report by DevSkiller, a “HR tech scale-up” that specializes in talent assessment and management. The DevSkiller Digital & IT Skills Report 2023 will help organizations find, evaluate and grow talent using testing and other techniques to his year’s worth of internal data mined from the company’s cloud his platform. Based on
Note that the company separates “digital” and “IT” skills separately in the report.
- Digital skills: These include computer literacy, data entry, social media, web-based communication and research, word processing, and secure information processing.
- IT skills: These include programming, web and app development, digital business analytics, digital design and data visualization, digital product management, data science, and user experience design.
“The tech talent job market is divided into two roles, each requiring different types of skills,” commented CEO and Founder Jakub Kubryński. “On the one hand, we see increasing demand for roles that require deep technical expertise and sophisticated IT skills like cloud-native Java. Even the most sophisticated people expect a certain level of “soft” digital skills proficiency. employee. ”
As you can see in the chart below, blockchain was by far the fastest growing technology on the company’s platform, despite the aforementioned cryptocurrency winter.
“The growing interest in blockchain is likely due to its enhanced security, increased transparency and instant traceability,” the report states. “As companies modify or add blockchain to their existing architectures, there is a growing demand for developers who can implement this technology.”
Digging deeper into the blockchain space, the report reveals that Solidity, a statically typed curly brace programming language designed to develop smart contracts that run on Ethereum, the cryptocurrency blockchain, is We also identify the specific skills that stand out and are most in demand.
Blockchain had the most growth last year (specifically from December 1, 2021 to December 1, 2022), but JavaScript was the most popular technology, surpassing Java in this year’s report. rice field.
One interesting aspect of the report is that just over half of the 2022 skills assessment invitations were for junior developers, about 18% for intermediate developers, and about 31% for senior developers and engineers.
“Even for mid-level positions, the skill threshold is pretty high,” Kubrinski said. “As a result, many companies are adjusting their hiring strategies to focus on getting juniors who are more likely to be upskilled later. There is a growing demand for a seamless and efficient way to retrain.”
Indeed, layoffs weighed heavily in the report amid widespread and mounting fears of an economic recession.
Presenting graphs from the Layoffs Tracker site, the report states: According to Indeed and Glassdoor’s Workplace Trends 2023, it’s a key factor creating a persistent gap between employer demand for new hires and the supply of candidates.
Sounding corporate alarm bells, the report states: Training and programs for employee upskilling and reskilling. A skills-based approach can be used to shift the focus of employees from jobs to projects. ”
The report’s findings are based on 209,249 coding tests sent to candidates in 54 countries through the DevSkiller platform.
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David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge360.
