As happens at the beginning of each year, there are reports from companies related to technology, with forecasts of all kinds for the following twelve months. One of them is O’Reallyspecialized in information about the learning in technology and businesswho just launched his report on technological trends in these areas for 2025. Of them stands out the interest in learning skills related to AI, but also security.
The surge in interest in AI-related learning has actually risen exponentially compared to last year. The most significant increases have been in prompt engineering, with an increase of 456%, and in AI foundations, with 386%. Generative AI has also received a 289% increase in learning, and the use of GitHub Copilot content on its platform has risen a whopping 471%, reflecting developers’ interest in learning about tools that can improve their productivity.
However, among AI-related topics, O’Reilly has seen a notable decline in interest in GPT, with usage down 13%, as well as a similar trend in searches on its platform. This indicates that developers are prioritizing basic, general AI knowledge over specific skills for working with specific platforms. All with the aim of being able to use various AI models and not just those from OpenAI.
This year’s report also highlights the rapid increase in interest in learning AI skills related to LangChain and RAG, which already have a use and search on the platform comparable to that of AI libraries such as PyTorch or Keras.
As we have mentioned, another of the most prominent focuses in terms of learning technological skills according to the O’Reilly report is security, with an increase in the use of the platform in searches and content on all topics related to it. For example, interest in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) has increased by 44%, while engagement in regulatory compliance skills has improved by 10%.
In addition, content related to application security grew by 17%, which highlights the concern of developers to protect all types of tools. The increase in the “zero trust” model, specifically, has reached 13%. This and other trends indicate that there is a notable concern for a shift towards complete security, as well as the development of strategies related to it in the business world.
Additionally, security certifications seem to be the most popular credentials among those that are officially recognized. The report highlights an increase in the company’s platform in searches and content from CISSP (11%) and ComTIA Security (13%).
Aside from these two main themes, the report also notes that the search for and consumption of content related to learning data engineering skills has increased by 29%, with a notable drop in interest in traditional programming languages. Interest in Python has thus fallen by 5.3%, while that of Java has fallen by 13%. The most searched for, and which has grown the most, is Rust, with a 9.6% increase in searches and content consultations.
Meanwhile, interest in cloud computing seems to have peakedsince the use of content from the main cloud providers and their certifications has decreased in all cases. Except for Google Cloud certifications, which has increased by 2.2%.
