The demand for job skills related to data processing -- NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills -- has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site Dice.com. The biggest gains, though, are for all things NoSQL.
Dice claims the number of job postings for "NoSQL experts" -- those with experience in unstructured data systems like MongoDB -- has risen 54 percent since last year. Other, related skills, such as Apache Hadoop and Python, have also posted significant year-over-year gains (43 percent and 16 percent, respectively). Python has become one of the big go-to languages for data processing, thanks to its simplicity and its wide selection of data-processing libraries.