The new year has begun and everybody has had their go at crystal-balling on the new year.
Joyce Brocaglia is writing on "The Most-Wanted Security Skills of 2007 (and Beyond)" over at CSO. According to her, skills that were (and will be) in demand would be E-discovery and litigation support, Application security assessment and remediation, Threat modeling, Identity and access management, PCI auditing and assessment, Enterprise and operational risk management and Technical sales.
Now that is a pretty diverse set of job roles in demand, and it covers a broad section of the market (with the possible exception of infrastructure security and compliance). What seems to be common for most of them is that they form a bridge between a technology discipline (for instance forensics) and a business need (for instance legal compliance).