The most important skills for Python devs in 2019

[adosii]

Just came across a blog post about the most in-demand skills for Python devs: link. Although Machine Learning is raising its popularity with the speed of light, AWS, and Clouds, along with Django, seem to be even more popular than ML libraries. However, Machine Learning itself is quite close to the top of the skills rating. Is such a situation on the Python employment market close to reality?

[Larz60+]

Personally, I never cared about what the trend was, because I would only work on projects that interested me.
Never tried to mold myself to a particular job.

[micseydel]

ML jobs typically require a masters degree. If you want to be devops and manage AWS, you can get away with lesser education. I feel like those two things aren't really in the same ballpark, even if it's true that they're comparably in-demand.

[Skaperen]

ML is DS (data science). AWS is more for sysadmins and netadmins who can program. it's amazing how many sysadmins and netadmins i have met (because this is where i have focused my career and had most jobs) that can't program. some can't even write a script. when i started my career, everyone in IT did at least some programming (even if it was just COBOL). now days, so many can't. but AWS/cloud is just getting going. getting into that needs the skill of programming (and, of course, problem solving). i'm now retired from IT, but got bored and started my own business helping about a dozen other companies to do things on AWS. lots of automation going on. and so far it has all been in Python or Bash (mostly Python).

[DeaD_EyE]

In Singapore my contact told me, if you apply Machine Learning on PLC Controllers, you'll have many customers there.
Yes, ML is currently the Buzzword number one, but without domain specific knowledge, you can't apply ML.
This is the cause, why so many with a Master Degree are on this projects. The education in IT is interdisciplinary.
This is where the power comes from. The only missing attribute on a fresh Master is the missing experience.

It should be possible to get a Job without a degree of Master, if you have good domain specific knowledge in a specific area.

[Larz60+]

I will admit that if I was looking for a particular person for a project, I might initially be a bit biased towards the person with the masters, but only at stage one.

On second interviews, I didn't didn't limit myself to a persons education, as a matter of fact, I didn't even care so long as the applicant showed an understanding of the project they were interviewing for, had a great enthusiasm about working on the project, and had a proven history of success.

It should be possible to get a Job without a degree of Master, if you have good domain specific knowledge in a specific area.

I agree.

[Skaperen]

of all the hires i have ever done, specific education level was never a criteria for choosing who to interview, choosing who was to be offered the job, and how much compensation was to be offered. one of my best hires turned out to have dropped out of high school and was working at an auto repair shop.