Professionals upskilling themselves in data science, AI, cloud, programming, analytics: Report

The number of professionals that have signed up for upskilling and reskilling courses on online professional training platform Intellipaat has seen a 200% year-wise growth from 2019 to 2021.
The top four courses opted for by professionals include data science and AI, cloud, programming, and analytics. The majority of courses have been opted for by people from metro cities. The report covers professionals from the age group 24-38 years.

Seven in 10 male professionals have been opting for the data science and AI course, and those who took up the course reported a 60% hike in their salary and position. Professionals from different fields including testing/Java developer, .net technology, web developer and Python developers are taking up the course to become data science professionals, or data engineers, or data analysts.

By opting for courses teaching cloud, professionals reported a hike of 55% in their salary and position. With maximum participation by male candidates (80%), these courses have helped professionals to switch to careers ranging from Devops engineer, AWS architect, cloud engineer, Azure engineer, to cloud architect and application architect. Programming courses have also been chosen more by male professionals (70%). Those who took up the course successfully switched their career to application managers, architects, and programmers with a salary and position hike of 35%.

The course in analytics helped professionals become BI consultants, analysts, research analysts and BI architects with a 50% hike in salary and position. Those who took up the course were from one of these backgrounds - freshers, programmers, MBA students, CA, non-IT professionals. Yet again, more male candidates opted for the course (60%).

“With technology rapidly transforming the world of business and creating new opportunities for professionals, an increasing number of people are opting for suitable courses to learn new skills and enhance their competencies. Upskilling and reskilling courses are relevant for growth in almost all industries as a majority of businesses are evolving and integrating technology into their operations. For IT / software development companies, upskilling is almost a necessity,” Diwakar Chittora, founder of Intellipaat, told ET.