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IT slowdown? These tech skills can help you earn a fat pay cheque

Demand is high for emerging job roles such as subject matter experts and hybrid professionals who possess domain and soft skills

Durba Ghosh and Neha AlawadhiMoneycontrol News
As the focus shifts decisively from scale to skills in the over USD 150 billion IT industry, Moneycontrol takes a look at what are some of these new age skills and what they fetch in the job market.
According to industry body Nasscom, 50 percent of employees from leading IT companies are already trained in digital technologies.
Demand is high for emerging job roles such as subject matter experts and hybrid professionals who possess domain and soft skills.

New job roles include skills such as cybersecurity, mobile app development, new user interfaces, social media, data scientists, platform engineering are in demand. Subject matter experts include people skilled in or as graphic designers, humanities, sociology, security, finance, payments are needed in the industry.
New skills including big data analytics, cloud & cybersecurity services, IoT, service delivery automation, robotics, artificial intelligence/machine learning/neuro-linguistic programming are fetching fat pay packets.
Here is a look at how employees are being paid across different skill sets:

Data: TeamLease | LPA: lakhs per annum
How much does new skill expertise fetch in salaries?
According to Alka Dhingra, general manager at IT staffing firm TeamLease, a candidate with a new skill specialisation can get 20-25 percent pay hike.
For example, the salary range for a big data analyst stands anywhere between Rs 400,000 – 1,800,000 per annum, depending on the level of the hierarchy.

The entry level salary for a candidate specialising in artificial intelligence, on the other hand, is higher at Rs 500,000; while the highest paid technology vertical is robotic process automation vertical, which can offer Rs 2,300,000 up to Rs 7,000,000 for a lead position.

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Scientists 'Teleport' a Particle Hundreds of Miles--But What Does That Mean?

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In a First, Photons are 'Teleported' from Earth to Space

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In a First, Photons are ‘Teleported’ from Earth to Space

By Nathaniel Scharping | July 11, 2017 3:32 pm

A station used for receiving information from the satellite. (Credit: Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

Chinese researchers have successfully transmitted quantum entangled particles from a station on earth to a satellite orbiting far overhead.
The experiment is part of an ongoing effort by researchers using the Micius satellite to achieve long-distance quantum communication, a feat that would yield hacker-proof information networks. In this most recent work, researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China beamed photons to the satellite and transmitted the state of other photons on the ground using entanglement. Transferring these so-called “qubits” allows information to be relayed securely and instantaneously.

Tied Together

When a particle is entangled with another, everything that happens to one affects the other. How this happens is unknown, but the effect has been confirmed in multiple experiments. Scientists had previously only been able to use the phenomenon to transmit information less than a hundred miles — any further and atmospheric conditions or imperfections in the fiber optic cables cause too much distortion. The effect is often called quantum teleportation, but its a bit of a misnomer. Unlike science fiction teleportation devices, nothing physical is being transported, just information about the state of a photon.
Transmitting the photons through space, where there is no atmospheric distortion, makes for a much easier task. Last month, researchers reported using the satellite to beam information down to Earth, and now they’ve completed the other leg of the journey. From a mountaintop station in Nepal, they transmitted a beam of photons to the satellite as it passed directly overhead, a distance of some 300 miles. They kept the other half of the entangled pair on earth, and by measuring them both, confirmed the quantum link held.

Completing the Circle

Transmitting particles from Earth to a satellite is a bit more difficult than sending them back, because they start out in the turbulent atmosphere. This means that any slight deviations in their course will have a greater effect over the entire distance. The researchers compensate with a series of technical refinements including an extra-bright source for photon entanglement and a very narrow laser. They detailed their work in a paper published this month to the preprint server the arXiv.
It’s another step forward along the path to quantum networks, but there’s more work to do. As with other quantum teleportation experiments, the fidelity was extremely low. Of the millions of photons sent over the course of a month, only 911 actually made it, meaning that the rate of actual information transfer is extremely low at the moment. But, with the proof-of-concept established, technology will likely to improve to the point where we one day may all be emailing over quantum linkages.