There's no doubt that the job market is changing. Gone are the days of learning how to do one job, sticking with it for 40 years and retiring with a desirable pension. In 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers hold a job for an average of 4.2 years before moving on. And 35 percent of workplace skills in all industries are expected to change by 2020, according to the World Economic Forum. New technological developments continue to make certain roles in the workplace obsolete.

Whatever your take on automation's impact on labor, we can all surely agree that future work will require, well, future skills. Because when robots take over manual tasks and AI can handle jobs that previously required a brain, what remains to be done by humans will, naturally, be different from what is done today. Now a new report by the British innovation foundation Nesta and University of Oxford future-gazers from the Oxford Martin School tries to establish how those changes will affect skill requirements by 2030. First, the team behind the research identified occupations that look set to be automated away (such as shelf fillers, van drivers, and administrators) and those that are likely to grow in the face of technology's encroachment (including teachers, biotech researchers, and nurses). Then, they looked at the skills that were most common among the occupations that had the greatest prospect of growing in the future, to work out which would be most useful when the robots come.