Demand for IoT talent up 300% in last 3 years: Survey - The Economic Times

MUMBAI: With exponential uptick in adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning related activities in the country, the demand for IoT talent has surged by 300 per cent since 2014, showed a recent report. "The demand for IoT talent rocketed by 304 per cent, between 2014 and 2017," according to Talent Supply Index (TSI) by predictive outbound hiring platform provider Belong. TSI is based on Belong's platform data and publicly-available data from a continuously growing array of hiring sources, including traditional job sites, inbound recruiting channels, online communities, tech networks, discussion forums and more. The June 2017, TSI factored more than 1.6 lakh jobs and over 260,000 candidates based in India. "What is clear is that even in the midst of all the layoffs, it is solidly a candidate-driven market for the jobs of the future. This trend will only accelerate with more companies investing aggressively in cloud and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), while supply struggles to keep pace," Belong co-founder and CEO Vijay Sharma said.