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LinkedIn’s most in-demand jobs in the PHL
Jobs in digital competency are currently some of the most in-demand in the Philippines, according to a report by online employment platform LinkedIn.
LinkedIn said it "analyzed millions of unique, user-input job titles from the last five years, and found that while the top five emerging jobs are related to technology, many of them require management and communications skills. Their actual roles are varied and diverse, reflecting a labor market that values talent with a hybrid set of complementary skills.”
- Data Scientist
- Application Development Analyst
- Back End Developer
- Full Stack Engineer
- Sales Development Representative
The top emerging jobs are the top job titles that saw the largest growth in frequency from 2013 to 2017.
“Traditional roles have evolved into hybrids that did not exist five years ago,” said Feon Ang, vice president for Talent and Learning Solutions for APAC at LinkedIn.
“While the top emerging jobs for Philippines are mostly related to technology, many of them require soft skills such as management and communications skills, making them hybrids of new and traditional roles,” added Ang.
According to LinkedIn, the top skills for the five emerging jobs are the following:
Data Scientist
- Data analysis
- Python
- SQL
- R Programming
- Machine Learning
Application Development Analyst
- SQL
- HTML
- JavaScript
- JAva
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Back-End Developer
- JavaScript
- PHP
- MySQL
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- jQuery
Full Stack Engineer
- JavaSCript
- PHP
- MySQL
- Cascading Style Sheets
- jQuery
Sales Development Representative
- Customer service
- Sales
- Leadership
- Management
- Marketing
Ongoing digitalization in the public and private sectors has contributed significantly to increase demand for jobs in technology, particularly in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector, according to LinkedIn.
The growing demand for tech talent on the emerging startup scene in the Philippines covers fintech, agriculture, and retail and engineering.
“Digital competence, as we now know, is composed of a blend of hard and soft skills. This competition for talent will only grow fiercer, so organizations need to build an adaptable workforce,” said Ang.
“Real-time understanding of the demand and supply of skills, talent pools and talent movement is the first step towards building talent intelligence at scale,” she added. —VDS, GMA News
