Wireless Skills Crucial for Tech Workers: ReportWireless Skills Crucial for Tech Workers: Report

So you want a job in technology? Then make sure your skills are fresh when it comes to wireless and radio frequency mobile technologies.New findings from CompTIA, which surveyed more than 3,500 IT managers from around the world, suggest mobile and wireless know-how will grow the most in importance during the next five years; in particular, IT managers in the health-care and education verticals were most apt to think so. By 2013, the survey found, those skill sets will be more valuable than security, general networking and operating systems -- today's top three. Also moving up the IT ladder of importance, according to the survey: Web-based technologies (like service-oriented architecture and software-as-a-service) and Java.

In addition, 52 percent of IT managers said they plan to hire more staff this year. Longer term, 64 percent plan to increase their staffs in five years. The most likely positions to be made available will deal with programming, coding and development work, CompTIA reported.CIO