## 4 Case Study: Analysing the Future Saudi Market's Needs for Sustainable Skills Management
### Job Market Dashboard  
Figure 3a shows a Saudi job market dashboard consisting of over 400 jobs active on 30 March 2022 across the areas of big data engineers, developers and engineers, and database systems. Of these jobs, over 55% are associated with big data engineering, followed by developers and engineers at about 30%, and database systems at 11%. Interestingly, about 95% of all these jobs were either entry-level or mid-level, showing that there is an emerging Saudi technical job market in the areas of data and AI. We also found that over 50% of industries are associated with information technology and software technology.  
Figure 3: _Cont_.  
Figure 3: (**a**). Saudi job market dashboard across job sectors, career levels, and industries. (**b**) Saudi job market dashboard across locations. (**c**) Saudi job market dashboard across academic qualifications, certifications, programming languages and frameworks. (**d**) Saudi job market dashboard across technical and soft skills.  
Analysis of the distribution of jobs across the regions revealed the interesting insight that those in the selected areas are mostly in only Riyadh or Eastern Province (see Figure 3b).  
Furthermore, we show the Saudi job market data points needed across the qualifications, certifications, and programming languages and frameworks in the selected job sectors (see Figure 3c). Here,.NET appears to be in most of the jobs, representing C# and its ecosystem, as.NET is not a programming language but a platform for building software. Surprisingly, a Ph.D. degree is a requirement for around 10% of jobs in the selected sector, indicating that a large number of companies are focused on research and development, which is indeed the backbone of any expanding industry. Furthermore, we show the top required certifications and the top programming languages and frameworks for the Saudi job market in the selected fields.  
Lastly, we show the top technical and soft skills required by the job markets in the selected sectors (see Figure 3d). We found that the top three technical skills most required by the market are \"ios development\", \"css development\" and \"game development\". Interesting, soft skills such as \"management\", \"communication\", and \"design\" appear to be the top soft skill required for the selected jobs in the technology sector.  
Figure 3a,b show an analysis of over 400 jobs from the Saudi job market. The top three job sectors are Software Engineer, Data Governance, and Data Engineer, and Figure 3c,d show associated data points across all job sectors. To better understand required programming languages, frameworks, and technical and soft skills associated with respective job sectors, we drill down to analyse data points concerning specific jobs in the following sections. Our proposed method extracts content from the respective CVs of individuals interested in excelling in a given job sector (e.g., Data Scientists, NoSQL or Software Engineer). It then matches their profile data points with the relevant jobs available. Further, the proposed method shows recommended job titles within a selected job sector along with the recommended job certifications and technical and soft skills required by the market.