O'Reilly Report Surfaces Shift In IT Skills Investments
Techstrong ITSM, Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
An O'Reilly analysis of how technology content is being consumed across its online learning platforms published this week indicates that while interest in most anything related to artificial intelligence (AI) is high, there has also been notable increases of interest in data engineering, security and data governance and the Rust programming language.
The report finds there has been a major increase of interest in topics such as GitHub Copilot (471%), prompt engineering (456%), AI principles (386%), and generative AI (289%). There was also a 29% increase in consumption of content related to data engineering skills, mainly thanks to the rise of AI.
However, there was a surprising 13% drop in the amount of content consumed that specially relates to ChatGPT.
At the same time, interest in traditional programming languages such as Python (5%) and Java (13%) declined, compared to a 10% increase in consumption of content relating to the Rust programming language.