Joining IT sector in 2020? These are the skills you will need to excel

The NITI Aayog, in a report, has listed IT sector fields that will face huge shortage of professionals in the next few years

In the constantly changing world of Information Technology (IT), there are new advances almost every month. And in such a scenario, it becomes really important for professionals in this field to keep upgrading their skill set. Even for the ones currently studying in this field, it's necessary that they arm themselves with skill set likely to be in demand in the future.

As per a recent report, data analytics professionals will be in great demand by 2020. The study says India will face a demand-supply gap of 200,000 data analytics professionals by 2020.

Other fields in the IT sector that