As demand for technology grows with every passing day, new-age careers are cropping up fast, giving young students and job-seekers additional avenues to explore. Recruitment and human resources industry executives say that hiring in the new-age sector is strong in the UAE.
Ruwise Sheriff, technology consultant, and Manpreet Kaur, consultant for digital, both at Michael Page, said artificial intelligence/machine learning engineers, RPA specialists, Python developers, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects/engineers are some of the roles which will be most in-demand in the UAE in 2022.
Mark Nancarrow, a Managing Partner at Flow Financial and Technology, projected that companies will continue to focus on data solutions for gaining insights, managing data streams, and integrating data sources in order to secure a competitive advantage.
“So, we predict that the highest paid jobs in the next few years will be focused around data. Some of these roles would be data scientists, data security directors, and analysts, DevSecOps specialists, and engineers.”
Michael Page experts projected that data scientists, blockchain developers, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, full-stack developers, and ML/AI engineers will be the highest-paid new tech jobs in the coming years.
They revealed that companies in the UAE are preferring candidates who have the knowledge and skills of Open source technologies (JavaScript, React.JS, Angular, Node, and Vue.JS), data analytics, advanced Java, cybersecurity, and others.
