Bridging the Gap for Cloud Skills (Executive Summary)

October 2013

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Trend Key Skills

Trends Openings and Recruitment

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Trends Growth

Trends M&A (Available in Full Report)

Competition Cloud Talent (Available in Full Report)

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Recommendation (Available in Full Report)

Trends

Java and HTML are the top skills in Cloud technology

Top Cloud Computing Skills

Automation

Disaster Recovery Compliance

iOS Development

JAVA/J2EE

Orchestration JavaScript

Security

CSS

HTML5

PHP/MySQL

Software Engineer

Senior Java Developer

Network Engineer

Most commonly advertised job titles Cloud

Senior Systems Engineer

Java Developer

Systems Engineer

Enterprise Architect

Senior Software Engineer

Systems Administrator

Websphere Cloud Computing Engineer

Source: Talent Neuron research and analysis

Trends

Of the total 2100 employers, Salesforce and Microsoft had most number of openings for Cloud computing over the last three years. There is immense war for talent in Cloud
Cloud technology Job openings over last three years
Salesforce Microsoft Cisco Vmware PwC Amazon.com General Electric Deloitte EMC Corporation IBM 414 407 353 283 931 852 730 694

4319 1105

Talent management has moved to the top of the CEOs agenda. In a 2012 global survey of CEOs and CFOs by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 53 percent of these leaders said that insufficient talent within their organization could harm them financially over the next 12 months
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Trends

Job posting for Cloud computing have quadrupled over the last two years, but the Cloud talent is growing at 13.2% CAGR leading out to huge supply gap
Cloud Computing Job Ads Volume
9500 5200 5600 5550 4890 5700 5800 5700 5400 6500 10500 7100 7100 7100

6900

7400

4500
2750 3100

4800

Installed Cloud talent is expected to grow at 16% CAGR till 2015 Millions
CAGR 13.2 %

1.08 0.78

1.05

1.20

1.38

2011

2012

2013 E

2014 E

2015 E

According to the Microsoft, An estimated 1.7 million cloud-related IT jobs cannot be filled in 2013 due to lack of quality talent, availability of skills and job marketplace This number will jump to 7 million by 2015
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Trends

IBM, HP and CA Technologies are the top thee companies hiring talent with cloud skills

Leveraging Global Talent Hot Spots To Tap Key Skills

Large organizations are leveraging global locations outside of the US like China, Israel and Europe to bridge talent gap Companies are setting up centers in the APAC region for testing and other support work

Acquiring For Talent And Capabilities

Over the last 2-3 years top companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle etc. have expanded their products and services portfolio by acquiring start-ups or smaller companies in Cloud

University Collaborations

collaboration with many universities for research activities and also to train and hire the best graduating talent

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