As India rides high on the current global outsourcing wave, experts warn it may not be entirely smooth sailing for the industry in the near future.India today has great manpower edge in the area of IT/ITES services, but this giant pool of skilled professionals is not a self-renewing resource.

Industry watchers are already cautioning about the growing demand-supply manpower gap in the IT sector, which could prove to be a major impediment to further development of the market, says Vijay K Thadani of NIIT.

“New job profiles are emerging within the ICT sector. By 2012, the popular IT careers are likely to be those of certified enterprise administrators, system administrators, check point security administrators, network professionals, information systems security professionals and certified engineers.”