If I asked you to name the programming language skill for which demand has increased the most recently and told you that the language name began with a “P,” odds are you’d probably guess Python, right? Well, if you did, while that would be a good guess, it would also be wrong. Based on recent job listing data from Dice, the language that saw the biggest jump in demand from 2013 to 2014 wasn’t Python but Pascal – or, more specifically, Object Pascal.

This week Dice released a new list of the top ten tech skills for which demand is growing the fastest. To determine this list, Dice looked at the change in demand for tech skills based on job listings over the two most recent full calendar years, 2013 to 2014. The tech skill which showed the biggest increase in demand was Cloud Impala, an open-source SQL query engine for Hadoop. Between 2013 and 2014 its ranking among tech skills increased by over 2,500 spots. The average salary for jobs requiring Cloud Impala in 2014-2015, according to Dice data, was $139,874.

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