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5 of the Fastest Growing Skills for System Administrators

System administrators, perhaps more than any position, have to constantly learn new skills. Considering there are always new softwares to support and new bugs to deal with, system administrators are in a constant state of learning.

The questions quickly becomes what to learn? Well, to help, we looked at what skills LinkedIn members who are system administrators added to their profiles in the past six months to determine the fastest growing skills in the profession. Then, we found Lynda.com courses that best teach them.

Without further ado, here are five of the fastest growing skills for system administrators, linked to a Lynda.com course that teaches it:

Our methodology

These five skills were calculated by the percentage of system administrator members adding that skill in the last six months. Skills must be possessed by 5,000 system administrators for inclusion onto this list.

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