INTHEBLACK May 2022 - Magazine - Page 16
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STORY RACHEL WILLIAMSON
AT A
GLANCE
The demand
for specialist
programming and data
analytics skills has
been growing for more
than five years.
The uncertain financial
scenarios brought
about by the pandemic
have boosted this
demand further across
multiple industries and
sectors.
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SURPRISING TECH
SKILLS IN DEMAND
FOR ACCOUNTING
AND FINANCE
PYTHON IS NO LONGER JUST THE PRESERVE OF PROGRAMMERS,
N O R I S A G I L E O N LY F O R P R O J E C T M A N A G E R S , AS D E M A N D
F O R A C C O U N TA N C Y A N D F I N A N C E P R O F E S S I O N A L S W H O
C A N S P R I N T A N D C O D E C O N T I N U E S T O R U N H O T.
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A
new report from recruitment agency Robert
Half and job market analytics firms Burning
Glass Technologies, The Demand for Skilled
Talent, analyses online job postings for finance and
accountancy roles over the past five years. The
findings are surprising.
The largest uptick in technical skill demand is for
programming language Python (up by 33 per cent)
and the process development framework Scrum (up
by 2.6 per cent).
These tech skills are delivering big pay rises. Payroll
specialists with System Applications and Products in
Data Processing (SAP) experience now command up
to 4 per cent more in base salary than those without,
while financial managers with enterprise resource
planning (ERP) skills now earn 8 per cent more than
their less-skilled counterparts.