The ’emerging jobs’ for 2020 are revealed: The top 15 up and coming occupations with VERY healthy six-figure salaries – and some don’t even require a degree
- Australia’s fastest emerging jobs include those with salaries reaching $190,000
- Roles in less ‘hard tech’ fields like customer service sector are those on the rise
- Top five emerging jobs all featured some element of artificial intelligence or AI
- Fastest emerging role nationally was that of an artificial intelligence specialist
Australia’s fastest emerging jobs for 2020 include those with salaries in excess of $190,000 – and not all of them require a degree.
The nation’s top five up-and-coming occupations all involve artificial intelligence, with AI and cyber-security specialists taking out the top two spots.
But roles in less ‘hard tech’ fields like the customer service sector were also on the rise, according to data compiled by professional networking platform LinkedIn.
Jobs involving artificial intelligence top a new list of Australia’s fastest emerging jobs for 2020
The platform’s senior director of APAC talent solutions Adam Gregory said the rise in the number of ways businesses can communicate with their customers had brought customer-centred roles to the fore.
The study found customer success specialist – which came with a salary range of between $90,000 and $145,000 – was one of the positions with the highest upward trajectories.
Customer success specialists, whose job it is to work proactively with a company’s clients to enhance customer experience, were joined by growth managers as some of Australia’s top emerging jobs.
Strategic positions requiring skills like market trend analysis and business development are also on the increase , according to the new research.
The top of LinkedIn’s list involved positions though which all featured some element of automation.
Artificial intelligence specialist, cybersecurity specialist and marketing automation specialist were the three-highest ranking positions.
AI specialists could expect a salary of between $106,000 – the average salary for the position – and $153,000, which was the highest paycheck for the role.
‘We are seeing that technology is driving demand for a plethora of new jobs, not just hard-skilled jobs such as Site Reliability Engineers but also soft-skill based roles such as Customer Success Specialists,’ Mr Gregory said.
‘The idea of a “tech job” automatically equating to a “hard skill job” is one that needs to be put to bed.
‘Companies need to hire and up-skill their talent with both hard and soft skills as the roles are constantly evolving.’
Artificial intelligence specialist, cybersecurity specialist and marketing automation specialist were the three-highest ranking positions