25 Hottest Job Skills on LinkedIn

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Some skills more than others helped employees land new jobs this year.

To determine which abilities were most in demand in 2014, LinkedIn analyzed the skills and experience data in more than 330 million LinkedIn member profiles. Overall, employees experienced in cloud and distributed computing, statistical analysis and data mining were the ones garnering the most interest from U.S. businesses this year.

"If your skills fit one of the categories below, there's a good chance you either started a new job or garnered the interest of a recruiter in the past year," Sohan Murthy, a LinkedIn research consultant, wrote on the company's blog.

The 25 hottest skills of 2014 in the U.S. on LinkedIn were:

1. Cloud and distributed computing
2. Statistical analysis and data mining
3. Middleware and integration software
4. Network and information security
5. Mobile development
6. Foreign language translation
7. Storage systems and management
8. Mac, Linux and Unix systems
9. Java development
10. Perl/Python/Ruby
11. Algorithm design
12. Digital and online marketing
13. Computer graphics and animation
14. Data engineering and date warehousing
15. Software QA and user testing
16. User interface design
17. Web architecture and development framework
18. Economics
19. Marketing campaign management
20. Shell scripting languages
21. Business intelligence
22. Virtualization
23. Electronic and electrical engineering
24. Game development
25. SAP ERP systems

In coming up with the list, LinkedIn first grouped the skills its members listed on their profiles in several dozen categories. For example, "Android" and "iOS" skills were grouped together in the "mobile development" category. LinkedIn then analyzed all of the hiring and recruiting activity that happened on LinkedIn in the past year and identified the skill categories that belonged to members who were more likely to start new jobs and receive interest from recruiters.

In addition to examining data among its U.S. members, LinkedIn also studied the most in-demand skills of employees in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, the Netherlands, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Among the worldwide tends uncovered were:

• More STEM: Skills in science, technology, engineering and math made up the majority of the top 10 lists in the 10 countries analyzed. While most are considered "tech" skills, more traditional STEM skills like mechanical, electrical and materials engineering made the list in many countries.
• Data demand: Around the world, statistics and data analysis skills were highly valued. Specifically, companies in the U.S., India, and France had a particularly high demand for cloud and distributed computing skills.
• Foreign language: Knowing a second language is paying off for many workers, especially those in the U.S. Language translation skills were among the hottest skills in many countries, but nowhere did they rank higher than in the U.S.
• Technical marketing: This year saw the rise of the technical marketer. With digital, online and search engine optimization marketing skills making the lists in many countries, there is increasing evidence that a 2012 prediction by Gartner that by 2017 chief marketing officers would be spending more on technology than chief information officers is coming true.

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