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. <\/p>\n
The new-age skill sets such as natural language processing are in high demand and promise market-beating rates. <\/p>\n
Data from a website that matches freelancers with employers reveals US 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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
While natural language processing topped Upwork's list of the 20 fastest-growing skills, Swift, a programming language used to build apps for Apple devices, ranked second, followed by Tableau, a system to create data visualisations. <\/p>\n
Amazon Marketplace Web Services, Stripe, Instagram marketing, MySQL programming, Unbounce, social media management and Angular JS were other top skills in the Upwork list. <\/p>\n
Evolving technology works both way-if it creates demand for new skills, it also renders even some recent tech skills obsolete. \"The demand for workers who know how to analyze Twitter data plunged 51% last quarter from a year earlier, reflecting the social media service's struggle to grow its user base,\" says the Bloomberg report. <\/p>\n
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