Demand for big data skills are on the rise and aren't limited to just NoSQL and Hadoop but also include Python and general cloud skills.

Python has not lacked for libraries such as Hadoopy or Pydoop to work with Hadoop, but those libraries are designed more with Hadoop users in mind than data scientists proper.

Python and R data science running on containers and Kubernetes The fourth megatrend is containers and Kubernetes. Hadoop/Spark is not just a storage environment but also a compute environment.