Reskill in Just 6 Technologies to get Great Jobs Post Pandemic

Vikas Arora
JanBask Training
Published in
9 min readJun 30, 2020

The current widespread Pandemic scenarios have resulted in great thinking around questions — Is it worth reskilling/upskilling during a Pandemic? If yes, then what great technologies should be the best pick for learning & making a future proof career in?

Reskilling/upskilling is never a bad investment, what’s worse is not knowing where to invest for reskilling — which future-proof technologies to learn and from which e-learning platforms.

Not all technologies will be having a major share in the future of work, some are tentative to lose their demand, while others will increase their demand more than ever — once the economic downturn will stabilize and the job market will once reopen for a perpetual run.

Post pandemic, Technologies will evolve and so will the technology-based careers. Out of many, only a few top technologies will stay unaffected and will make more room for great job opportunities than ever before with maximized need for qualified and certified technologists who could help them curb the effects of economic downturn.

Want to know what automated and trending technologies will be the major players in the future job market, post-pandemic, 2021? Let’s find out now, here are the top 6 technologies that will have a major share and jobs in the future job market. Pandemic or no Pandemic — these technologies will rule without break.

6 Top Technologies to Create Great Job Options — In and After Pandemic

1.) DevOps

DevOps is not a technology but rather a methodology that makes sure that the operational and development tasks/resources are aligned well to result in — automated infrastructure, workflows, and sound application performance.

However with the right DevOps skill-building and training, one can closely learn to adopt this methodology (which is scrutinized by every medium to large scale enterprises).

What jobs can be pursued under DevOps?

After qualifying in DevOps skills, you can easily place yourself in multiple positions like:

  • DevOps or platform engineer
  • Reliability Engineer
  • Build Engineer
  • Data Analyst
  • Product Manager,
  • Release Manager

Why reskill in DevOps roles?

  • DevOps is in every industry — IT, Medicine, Banking, Transport, Media, eCommerce, and more.
  • The DevOps market size is expected to grow to $12.85 Billion by 2025.
  • DevOps engineers earn an average package of $115,666 per year in the USA.
  • The technology ranked at 2nd position of Glassdoor’s 50 Best American Jobs” list.
  • 60% of hiring managers are looking for professionals who can absorb into DevOps roles.

2.) Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity has been around but has become prominent in the recent past- ever since many organizations have started adopting data-driven cultures & communication over the online networks and the number of data breaches has gone out of hands.

“There will be 3.5 million Cyber Security jobs by 2021”.

With data growing every second and organization become pensive to digitized security, the demand for qualified & trained cybersecurity will be just immense. And to meet the skill gap, anyone can bag a six figures salary income with ease.

What job titles can be pursued under Cybersecurity?

After attaining qualified Cybersecurity skills and training, you can be a part of job roles like:

  • Security Analyst
  • Security Admin
  • Security Engineer
  • Security Software Developer
  • Security Consultant

Why reskill in Cyber Security?

  • Cyber Security engineers earn an average salary of $115,861 per year.
  • Cyber Security experts are demanded in diverse industries like Healthcare, IT, Banking, Utility, eCommerce, entertainment, and more.
  • In the coming years, the IT security space is expected to have 3.5 billion job openings.
  • The IT security market will grow to $300 billion by 2022.

3.) Big Data

Big data analytics has become an immense need for a business that wants to extract big meaningful values from the diverse data items — collected from customers, markets & competition — to gain insight and understanding of business customers, product research and development, marketing activities, and much more. To holistically decide the actions or decisions that lead to better outputs & yields.

Spark and Hadoop are the two leading technologies allowing big data analytics.

What job titles can be pursued under Big Data?

With the right big data management skills, tools like Hadoop & more, knowledge training, you can pursue your career as a:

  • Data Scientist
  • Business Analyst
  • Hadoop Admin
  • Big Data Solution Architect
  • Visualization specialist
  • Big Data Analyst
  • Hadoop Architect
  • Hadoop Developer
  • Hadoop Tester

Why reskill in Big Data Analytics?

  • Big Data skills get paid an average salary of $125,000 per year.
  • The Hadoop & Big Data market is expected to grow from $17.1 Billion in 2017 to $99.3 billion in 2022.
  • The demand for Big Data specialists is great in Healthcare, Banking, Energy, eCommerce, and more.

4.) Salesforce

Salesforce is another top technology trend of 2020 and beyond that will create streams of job options for beginners to professionals. As a leading and automated CRM, companies are adopting it to maximize their customer relationship, sales, and marketing processes. Salesforce professionals are in abundant demand these days either as a Salesforce developer, Salesforce marketer, Salesforce Admin, and more.

“There will be 3.3 million Salesforce jobs in the market by 2022”.

What job titles can be pursued under Salesforce?

After getting qualified training in Salesforce, anyone can enrol in the job titles as -

  • Salesforce Developer
  • Salesforce Administrator
  • Salesforce Consultant
  • Salesforce Marketer and more.

Why reskill in Salesforce technology?

  • Salesforce has great demand in sectors like IT, media, manufacturing, healthcare & life science, Finance, Computer hardware, NPO, eCommerce.
  • The Salesforce Developers get paid an average salary of $120,000 per year, while Salesforce admin gets paid an average salary of $102, 893 per year.
  • Salesforce is the leading CRM in the cloud market with market share 19.7%.
  • 3.3 million jobs to be created within the Salesforce landscape by 2022.

5.) AWS

To leverage businesses’ scalability and growth, AWS is another big technology move that provides businesses — secure cloud services platform, database storage, content delivery, cloud computing power. AWS cloud computing is the next best technology trend that is highly recognized by medium scale to multinational companies and due to which, they are offering huge vacancies for professionals who are adept in AWS cloud computing skills.

What job titles can be pursued under AWS?

After completing the AWS certification training, anyone can rope in job titles as -

  • AWS Cloud Architect
  • AWS Developer
  • AWS SysOps
  • AWS networking specialist
  • AWS big data specialist

Why reskill in AWS technology?

  • AWS has millions of customers in 127,500 nonprofit organizations, 5000 education institutions, and 2000 government agencies.
  • The average salary for AWS professionals ranges between $93, 157 to $139,415 per year.
  • AWS has great demand in sectors like IT, media, manufacturing, healthcare, Finance, Computer hardware, NPO, eCommerce.
  • AWS has the highest share in the cloud computing market which is 32%.

6. Blockchain

This technology has shaped the power of traditional currencies. It is another safest and trusted technology that businesses are adopting to protect their block of assets from interception. And the best part, the technology doesn’t limit to just IT rooms, it stretches to multifarious industries like healthcare, real estate, travel and more. To meet their need for integrating blockchain-enabled products, the companies are actively hiring for blockchain developers and professionals who could help in layering their business data or process with great security.

What job titles can be pursued under Blockchain?

After having a qualified training in Blockchain, you can rope in job titles as -

  • Blockchain Developer
  • Blockchain Solution Architect
  • Blockchain Designer
  • Blockchain Consultant

Why reskill in Blockchain technology?

  • Blockchain has great demand in sectors like IT, Media, Travel, Healthcare, Finance, and more.
  • The average salary of Blockchain Developers ranges between $150,000 and $175,000 per year.
  • Blockchain solutions are expected to grow to an estimated valuation of 15.9 billion by 2023.

Some Other Technology Trends We Cannot Fail to Miss

  • IoT devices will be reaching 35 million by 2022. IoT will be another one of the great suspension of technology trends that will streamline & create seamless communication between the devices of daily use. The need for IoT professionals will equally increase as long as the need for automation will creep in.
  • Artificial Intelligence will help in streamlining and automating the tasks to achieve nothing but productive outcomes.
  • Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual reality (AR) — this duo is also one of the disrupting trends that will be the subset in many automation-driven business cultures.

What is common in these top trending and disrupting technologies?

  • They all are growing and currently have huge job openings in the job titles as mentioned.
  • They all are recession-proof, as the skill gap is there at initial stages. It would be beneficial to absorb in these fields early by learning great skills to bag the high figure package.
  • All technology trends are easy to learn with the right training and certification.
  • Anyone from technical to the non-technical background can be a part of these technologies.
  • Anyone from beginner to professional level can upskill themselves in these fields to witness career hike.
  • The salaries offered in each of the technology fields are quite satisfying & worth from the headstart level.

Final Thoughts on Top Technology Trends Post Pandemic 2021!

These were the main six technology trends that we will have major demand in post-pandemic. All it takes is the right training and certification to absorb in these trends. But once considered and done, anyone can have — consistent learning, chance to bag high compensation, brainstorming on new challenges, skills to help businesses flourish and make their way out, and much more. These are the technologies that are sure-shot to create huge job vacancies post-pandemic, don’t miss out on them.

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Vikas Arora
JanBask Training

Vikas Arora loves pursuing excellence through writing and have a passion for technology. He currently writes for JanBaskTraining.com