Skills on the Up
Anyone with these skills is likely to be employed for at least five more years. So if you can pick few of these it career skills your career is safe for few more years.

1. J2EE
2. .Net
3. Project Management
4. Oracle
5. SAP
6. Business Analysis
7. NT Novell
8. Java
9. CCNA
10. MCSE

New Hot Skills
The top three are definitely becoming very hot skills.

It's good to see Project Management up there. It is a much underrated skill.

Business Analysts are also less immune to offshore outsourcing, as they have to remain reasonably close to the business users.

SAP continues to do well and is taking market share from its rivals.

Siebel also gained an honourable mention.

Oracle continues to be very strong, and is also expected to gain even more market share in the coming years.

Honourable Mentions
Other skills that also received honourable mention for the future are some of those from before the downturn such as:-

SQL
Unix
C++
VB
Access
ASP

In fact SQL, Unix and C++ are still the most sought after skills currently, and anyone who has them should stand in good stead.

Those where you might find it a bit of a struggle in the next few years are the skills from before the previous downturn like Cobol, CICS, DB2 etc.

There is still quite a lively market for PL/I though.