A software services company’s customer has a specific requirement that will be satisfied through outsourcing. Although the customer is hoping to get domain expertise, the minimum expectation from the team is the technical skill set.

A software services company expects its professionals to acquire a breadth of skills to ensure he/she can fit into many different project teams. The value of a services software consultant is directly proportionate to the number of skills in which he/she can claim expertise.

So, it requires one to Keep constantly updated on technology and management practices . All it requires for the employees to have knowledge on programming skills to execute the work. They hardly need to build any product expertise.

The Most In-Demand Programming Languages are :
Java,JavaScript,.Net,Python,PHP,C++,Ruby on Rails,iOS/swift,Android,Perl,GO

Data Base Technologies :
MySQL,PostgreSQL,MongoDB,Microsoft SQL Server,Oracle,Sybase,SAP HANA and IBM DB2

Testing :
Manual Testing and Automation Testing (Selenium, QTP, Sahi, JMeter, TestingWhiz...etc)

Cloud :
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Compute and HP's Converged Infrastructure OpenStack skills in high demand as well .

Virtualization :
VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox and Citrix XenServer are unavoidable.

Big Data And Data Science:
Hadoop (HBase) and MongoDB