The top ten tech skills that are expected to be in high demand by 2025 have been revealed by online skills training platform Coursera.
The company’s Job Skills of 2025 report, based on insights from over five million enterprise learners and 7,000+ institutional customers, underscores the growing importance of cybersecurity and risk management in the tech industry.
Cybersecurity skills dominate the list, with six out of the top 10—including incident management, threat modeling, and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)—highlighted as critical pathways to addressing the surge in cyberattacks.
The top 10 skills are:
Coursera stated, citing an urgent demand for security expertise,
The report further revealed a nearly five-million-person shortage in cybersecurity professionals worldwide.
Rav Ahuja, IBM’s global program director, emphasized the importance of upskilling, pointing to a 75% rise in attacks in Q3 2024.
TimesNow.com.ng reported that the United Kingdom has increased the number of organisations licensed to sponsor workers on the worker and temporary worker immigration routes.
According to checks by TimesNow.com.ng, the latest list, updated on Friday, August 23, 2024, has 119,195 approved companies.
This indicates that 5,276 new companies have now been added to the approved list compared to the 119,195 approved as of May 2024.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
