Demand for Cloud Skills Doesn’t Stop at the Data Center Door
November 28, 2012
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
The market for cloud-related jobs for technology professionals keeps expanding, with tens of thousands of job openings. But cloud computing skills may be providing non-tech professionals and managers an edge in the job market as well.
Wanted Analytics recently reported that within a given month, more than 10,000 US-based jobs were advertised online for technology positions that need experience and knowledge of cloud computing. The number of job ads increased rapidly in 2012, reaching new highs in demand each month and is up 80% from a year ago. Essentially, demand for cloud jobs maps closely to IT overall, led by such positions as software engineer, Java developer, systems engineer and enterprise architect…
For its part, Dice reports that consumer demand is driving the need for cloud skills. “Consumer demand for cloud services from folks like Amazon, Apple and Google is driving the creation of new companies and increasing demand for professionals with a variety of skills, from data warehouse decision support and big data technologies, to C and Linux network applications.”…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2012/11/27/demand-for-cloud-skills-doesnt-stop-at-the-data-center-door/