🧠 Future of Skills - Coursera & Udemy Reports

Top trends, fastest-growing skils, and how leaders should adapt.

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Eryn Peters
March 17, 2024

Skills have been a hot topic this year. Leaders at Davos were obsessed with the impact of AI on skills, the World Economic Forum released their tips on Putting Skills First in 2024, and we now have skills reports from both Udemy and Coursera to compare the largest learning platform trends in the workforce.

Coursera - The Job Skills of 2024

This year’s report is based on insights from five million enterprise learners affiliated with 3,000 businesses, 3,600 higher education institutions, and governments in over 100 countries.

Leadership and soft skills aren’t going anywhere.

  • Leadership skills for supporting teams through organizational change are a growing priority.

  • The fastest-growing skills are business skills.

  • Skills for providing oversight and compliance are increasingly essential.

Tech skills continue to be in demand.

  • AI-related skills are driving record-breaking course enrollments.

  • Demand is surging for cybersecurity and information security skills.

  • Skills for understanding and communicating data continue to be among the fastest-growing.

  • Demand for web development and computing skills remains high.

“New Collar” workers taking non-traditional education paths increase.

  • Curated learning paths, like Professional Certificates and Specializations, are driving the largest skill rank changes.

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We’re not paying for training. We’re paying for the outcomes that trained people can achieve.

Tim Robbins, Engineering Leader at Walmart

Udemy - 2024 Global Learning & Skills Trends Report

The Udemy report is created using their platform data amassing 64M+ users. There’s tons of great data, so be sure to give it a full read.

Skills-first organizations. 

Understand how to navigate the skills landscape and why it is essential to assess, identify, develop, and validate the skills their teams have, don’t have, and need, to remain innovative and competitive

AI everything.

Adapt to the rise of AI, including how generative AI and automation are disrupting the way we work as well as their role in supporting the move to a skills-based approach

Leadership & change management.

Develop strong leaders who can lead through change and build resilience across their teams