Application Development Company

According to ComputerWorld, web application development remains top dog by far in the top IT skills to have in 2010.  Specifically, companies will look for developers with knowledge of .Net, Java, Web development, open source and portal technologies.  The article goes on to suggest that combining web application development skills with business analysis or project management skills is a big plus.  ComputerWorld lists the remaining skills to have for 2010 in its top six as:  Help Desk/Technical Support, Networking, Project Management, Security and Business Intelligence.

I feel ComputerWorld did not put enough emphasis on Security; this without doubt will be the biggest challenge for IT executives in the coming years.  Open-source software may be an innovative money saver, but IT professionals still have concerns that networks could be vulnerable to viruses, cyberattacks and other intrusions.

According to InfoWorld, a new survey from Forrester Research found that 58 percent of large companies have security concerns about open source. In addition, 57 percent of small and mid-sized businesses expressed concern that open-source software would be "complex and hard to adopt".

With the advent and increasing usage of open-source in the business world, expect to see demand for IT security related skills to grow.  According to the FLOSS 2020 roadmap presented at the Open World Forum in Paris, 40 percent of jobs will be related in some way to open source by 2020.  You can expect application development and security to comprise a great majority of these jobs.