The U.S. job market is brushing up against its best performance in a half-century, but certain occupations are in greater demand than most — those involving new or particularly human-led skills that seem least subject to automation.
In its latest quarterly index, provided first to Axios, Cognizant reports that “jobs of the future” — occupations like cyber calamity forecaster, career counselor and solar engineer — jumped 68 percent in 2018, vastly outperforming the market as a whole. By comparison, the 2.6 million jobs created last year by the sizzling economy overall were only a 1.5 percent addition to the U.S. labor force.