12 Top Skills Tech Companies are Hiring for in 2024

Foreword: The author analyzed thousands of job postings from the Big Five tech companies - Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, to find out.

By: Chrysanthus Date Published: 25 Feb 2024

Are you a software engineer who wants a different field of work in software engineering? - If yes then this article is for you. Are you a fresh software engineer or a fresh computer science graduate, who is looking for employment in a tech company? - If yes then this article is for you. Are you at the end of your middle school (secondary school), or end of your high school, or have completed high school and you want to pursue a carrier in software engineering? - If yes then this article is for you.

Generative AI tops the list for in-demand technical skills published by magazines: McKinsey, Forbes, TechCrunch, and many others, many of whom predicted that tools like ChatGPT would fundamentally change how developers build software.

But, do these predictions play out in the current job market? AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. Where do AI skills rank among the skills that top tech companies are actually hiring for, in 2024? The author analyzed thousands of job postings from the "Big Five" tech companies: Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, to find out. The top results are in the following graph:

Notice that AI is not up to half, in demand. Demand for AI and ML skills is certainly on the rise, though. “AI engineer,” a term that only entered popular use in 2022, is now featured in nearly 2,000 job postings at Big Five tech companies. For job-seekers, this means that now is the time to start building your skills in AI or ML to keep up with the field of software engineering. ML stands for Machine Learning.

If the reader is a member of the Linkedin network, then he/she would agree that this list is almost applicable to small tech companies.

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