I graduated with a degree in STEM last year and have been working for a year in a machine learning-related job which uses Python. After trying out web dev, I much prefer it to data science and find it more enjoyable in comparison.
I planned to continue learning web dev (go through the learn section on FCC) and improve my skills in my spare time whilst continuing with my current job, before I start looking for something web dev related (perhaps a year from now).
I live in the UK, and wanted to know what the most in-demand skills here are? FCC teaches html, css, javascript but there’s also Wordpress and PHP/SQL/NodeJS/.NET which all pop up on Indeed - not sure which of these are worth learning.
you’ll need to look at the job market, so get yourself on indeed, cv library and monster, and see whats out there (granted at this moment in time, it wont be a great indication, thanks Corona!)
That should give you a bit of direction of what you need to be looking at (fellow Brit here)
I see! I’ve seen quite a few which have PHP and .NET as well as UI/UX in their descriptions - are these really common skills for web developers which I should learn? I was a bit surprised to see the former 2 since I didn’t realise they were still this popular, but perhaps the lack of other jobs is due to Corona right now.
Also, should I be aiming for junior positions, or mid-level/intermediate ones? I have commercial programming in Python for writing scripts, but not in web dev.