Still wondering about what’s hot on the market, what skills and sectors are moving it, you can easily reach a not surprising answer.
2.0 is a strong trend and anything around it will create what now are blue oceans and in the future advantages on this topic will be worthy. So, web programming but as well as front-end, specially smartphones. J2EE and .NET are still demanded, like project management and web architecture. Some is said about Sharepoint. Bussiness Intelligence and Data Warehousing are raising, but I guess that’s for a close future. Systems are always demanded, specially for GNU/Linux networks, support personnel Helpdesk and desktop but green IT, cloud computing and virtualization are already waken up.
Fortunately the list of industries is longer, though it depends upon geographics. Healthcare, energy, insurances, software development, government contracts and military, renewable energy, MLM, biotech and games are making the world go round, and they will still.