As economic and social factors continue to shape the IT industry, we see four compelling pressure points that have the potential to significantly affect IT careers over the next five years.

# 1 Society

As society’s dependence on IT systems continues to grow, the demands of the professionals who dream, design and support these systems become increasingly stringent. Computers are no longer just the domain of engineering minds, grandmothers’ children are also on board and everyone else. This makes the Internet more important to society than ever.

# 2 Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the presentation of a third-party service on your network. This is another concept that is gaining momentum primarily as a result of recent advances in telecommunications, processing and storage capacity. This service model has the potential to influence technical roles within the IT workforce. Although it would probably be more accurate to say that this model (if successful) will be the catalyst rather than the cause of a shift in the skill demands of the workforce.

# 3 Internet addresses

The current Internet address space known as IP version 4 is 95% depleted. Its successor is known as IP version 6. Interestingly, the (eventual) implementation of IP version 6 has enormous potential to shape IT professional profiles. Ironically, the potential of this new protocol is the same that some large corporations today fear. You will see that this protocol will give residential users the ability to participate on the Internet by providing information, rather than simply receiving it. It can be said that this functionality is similar to the current ‘peer-to-peer protocols on steroids!

It is also possible that the ‘next killer app’ of IP version 6 is one that takes advantage of this functionality to empower home users in a way that today is very difficult to achieve for technical reasons related to the widespread use of network addressing. private.

# 4 Link ability

The speed of Internet connections has increased steadily for twenty years. As recently as 2000, dial-up modems were the preferred connection. Today’s dial-up modems are excruciatingly slow and are not used by consumers in most parts of the world. One day, ADSL and ADSL2 + connections will also be considered slow. The higher the bandwidth, the more functionality we will be able to transmit to our computers. And this will result in richer internet experiences. These advancements are found in the telecommunications sector, web developer technologies and careers are likely to experience the biggest changes as a result of these advancements.

Whatever the catalyst, we can see here that there are a number of market forces that are shaping the information technology industry workforce. But, as always, the industry will adapt and prosper, and forward-thinking job candidates should once again be in a position to profit.