What tech jobs and skills will be in demand in 2024?

Five in 10 tech hiring managers plan to increase headcount this year.

Amidst layoffs and a challenging market, an expert said things are “looking bright” for the tech industry in 2024, with half of hiring managers planning to increase headcount this year.

To help talents better secure jobs, Morgan McKinley listed the jobs and skills which will be in demand in the tech industry this year.

In the development and testing sphere, the recruitment expert said roles like Development Manager, Full Stack Engineer, Automation Testing, Engineering SME, and L3 Developer will be in demand.

Meanwhile, those with expertise in Java with microservices & GCP, API development, DotNet Core with Azure, core development to build CI, CD pipeline, and Python development will also be in demand.

Below are the other in-demand tech jobs and skills in 2024:

Infrastructure

JOBS IN DEMAND	SKILLS IN DEMAND
Cloud Engineer	Cloud Automation
DevOps Engineer	Container Architecture
Site Reliability Engineer	Site Reliability
Network Engineer	Cloud architecture
Solution Architect	Kubernetes Deployments
	CI/CD Pipeline Development

Architecture

JOBS IN DEMAND	SKILLS IN DEMAND
Solution Architect	Coding experience
Enterprise Architect	Implement microservices for applications
Principal Architect	SOA Architecture
Presales Solution Architect

Analytics

JOBS IN DEMAND	SKILLS IN DEMAND
Big Data Engineers (Cloud)	Spark/Kafka/Hadoop
Data Scientist	LLM & NLP
Data/AI Governance (AI Ethics)	Governance framework
Data Analyst	Python. SQL
Machine Learning Engineer	Tensorflow, PyTorch

Cyber Security & Technology Governance

JOBS IN DEMAND	SKILLS IN DEMAND
Cyber Security Ops & Engineering	Technology Risk & Governance
Technology Risk Management	Security Architecture
Technology Audit	Cloud/DevSecOps
Cloud Security	Threat & Monitoring
Security Architect	Cyber Security Data Analytics

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