What are skills that ICT employees have today that are no longer possible unique selling points to market themselves? How has the skill sets needed to remain relevant changed?

The good news I have for you is the demand of tech workers is high currently so as long as you can create solutions using at least one of the relevant languages (Java, JS, Python, Go), your chance of getting employed is quite high.

Instead of skillset, here are the following points which may hinder an ICT career:

1) Lack of skills/motivation to learn to learn new technologies/design

tech is always changing, I learnt more stuff regarding FE, BE, devops and solution architecture in my 3.5 years career as compared to my 3.5 years university degree. In fact, I am not even using the primary language I learnt in university for work

2) Staying in the not-so-good tier tech companies

I will recommend you to read an article regarding different tiers of tech companies (Google it). To put it simply, the good tier companies will make you improve a lot in tech skills and as a result, remuneration will be at the high end and work is so much better. Not-so-good ones will view tech as cost and are against changes. Stagnation in those companies is very real

3) Openness to changes

14 years ago, Apple introduced iPhone and redesigned the job scope of software developers to write program for both the web and the phone. 6 years ago, Kubernetes was released and created the modern standard of software deployment. We have also the ideas of machine learning currently and in future, the potential of quantum computing. Change is always there in tech. A tech career will be a tough journey of learning and unlearning things but it is certainly fun and exciting for anyone who is interested to solve problems. Enjoy the ride and good luck!

ICT as a sector that keeps changing very rapidly and as a practitioner, one need to keep track of the trend in the industry and follow to keep abreast of the new technologies and skill set. it is probably true that the rate of change in ICT sector has increased tremendously in the past fifteen years. For example there used to ICT personnel involved in Voice networking EPBX, truncking for large enterprise but today all of the voice networking runs through data network and one need to be an expert in data networking . Or earlier most of the business application for enterprise used to be in COBOL and today it is no longer relevant . Most in demand are SW coding jobs on Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, C, C++, PHP, Swift, Go, Ruby. Also the other area of ICT which is growing is in Cloud infrastructure as well Cybersecurity and data analytics and machine learning . One of the way to keep yourself relevant is by adding new skill set by following trends in the industry and read online papers from Gartner, Forrester, IDG, Tech Target etc as well as attend online webinars and conference by subscribing to the events.

-Gautam​​​