The 100 Top

Surging Workplace
Skills for 2023

Keeping pace with the speed of skills transformation has long

been a critical component to an organization’s success, even
before the upheaval and accelerating digitization brought on by
the pandemic. For companies to thrive, they need to emphasize
the value of learning by offering employees ongoing learning
opportunities to develop their skills in technical areas, role-
specific business competencies, and the soft skills that create
resilient employees and strong teams.
With over 13,400 global businesses and organizations among
Udemy Business customers, we have a unique viewpoint on the
trends taking place in workplace learning and skills acquisition.

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From the below list of the top global 100 surging skills, we can see
that learners are looking to boost their capabilities and expand
them across broad categories, including soft skills, cloud
computing, web development, cybersecurity and more. Out of the
top 10 surging skills on this list, seven are technical skills. In fact,
technical skills learning has grown 49% on Udemy Business over
the last year alone. We also see that the effects of the Great
Resignation linger, with many employees still considering changing
roles and seeking job search skills to do so.

Over 30% of the skills

required three years ago
will soon be irrelevant.
Gartner

Top 100 Surging 


Workplace Learning Skills

1 Databricks
51 SAP S/4HANA

2 System design interview

52 M obile app development

3 M indfulness
53 Korean language

4 Behavior Driven

Development (BDD) 54 Integration services

5 5 G
55 A ndroid Jetpack

6 Job search
56 Effective meeting 

strategy

7 Customer experience 

management
57 Digital transformation

8 M icrosoft Power Platform

58 A zure Active Directory

9 Cryptography
59 LPI Linux Essentials

10 Helm
60 Salesforce administration

11 Linux certification
61 Java Collections framework

12 Certified Kubernetes 

Security Specialist (CKS) 62 SAP SD

13 Software Development 

Life Cycle (SDLC) 63 COBOL

14 SAP Cloud Platform

64 SAS Certified Professional:

Advanced Programming

15 WebdriverIO
65 SAP ABAP

16 M icrosoft PL-900
66 React Hooks

17 A zure Data Factory

67 FortiGate

18 M icrosoft Power Automate

68 M icrosoft PL-300

19 Certified Information

Systems Auditor (CISA) 69 Linux command line

20 Boto
70 E thereum

21 Nonverbal communication
71 Web design

22 Robot Framework
72 E nglish conversation

23 Foundational math topics

73 Responsive design

24 SAP Security
74 Database management

25 Next.js
75 Google Cloud Associate

Cloud Engineer

26 E clipse IDE
76 M obile testing

27 NestJS

77 Palo Alto Networks

Certified Network Security

Engineer (PCNSE)

28 P ython scripting
78 Serenity BDD

29 Salesforce software
79 Cisco Certified Network

Professional Enterprise,

(CCNP Enterprise)

30 Informatica PowerCenter
80 Object-oriented design

31 Oracle Cloud
81 LoadRunner

32 Solidity
82 CompTIA CySA+

33 Google BigQuery
83 Aspect-oriented

programming

34 P rogramming fundamentals
84 F5 Certified BIG-IP

Administrator

35 Test of English for

International
85 P ostman
Communication (TOEIC)

36 Digital strategy
86 Snowflake

37 Web accessibility

87 Cybersecurity awareness

38 P alo Alto Networks

Certified Network Security

88 Lean manufacturing
Administrator (PCNSA)

39 Industry 4.0
89 Cypress.io

40 Google Cloud certification

90 CompTIA Network+

41 IT fundamentals
91 A SP.NET Core

42 Business communication
92 Integration
uleSoft Certified
M
rchitect CI A (M A)

43 Cloud security
93 Data warehouse
44 Azure Kubernetes

Service (AKS) 94 xcel shortcuts and tips

E

45 Six Sigma Yellow Belt

95 Kanban
46 P
P
rofessional Scrum

roduct Owner (PSPO) 96 Study skills

47 M BA
97 Financial accounting
48 Version control

98 Software practice s

49 AWS Certified Advanced

Networking - Specialty 99 Software testing

50 Recruiting
100 Grafana

According to the International Labour

Organization, while industries like construction
and hospitality are still seeing slower job growth,
tech-related sectors have a growing need for
highly-skilled workers across a range of areas 

of digital expertise.

Downloa he 2023 Workplace Learning Tren s Repor now.

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Top surging skills indicates the percentage growth in total hours of learning
consumed for a given topic over the last year by Udemy Business learners.

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