Bangalore: Tech world is buzzing with many programming languages, platforms (mobile and PC), protocols and other technologies, that can easily put you in an uneasy spot if you were to select the one which is really important right now. Based on surveys and data from a variety of sources, ReadWrite has put together a list of seven of the most sought-after tech skills for this year, read on to know them.

#7 iOS Development

As of September 12, 2012, Apple's App Store contained more than 700,000 iOS applications, which have collectively been downloaded more than 40 billion times. It had a 21 percent share of the Smartphone mobile operating system units shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012, behind only Google's Android.

It comes as no surprise that iOS developers are sought after. Most sources that track job talent demands iOS development or related skills like Xcode and Objective-C programming very highly.

iPhone and iPad development have been trendy for a few years now, but things actually got accelerated pretty dramatically in the last two years. After years of slow but steady growth, demand for iOS development skyrocketed over the course of 2011 and 2012, according to data from the job aggregator site, Indeed.

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