Cloud Foundry Foundation said the gap in cloud developer skills is threatening the firm’s digital transformation
Companies in Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom are having trouble hiring cloud developers, Cloud Foundry Foundation’s Marketing & Research Head Devin Davis told RCR Wireless News.
The executive said companies in markets such as India, China, Germany and Canada are reporting difficulty hiring skilled cloud developers. Davis said the U.S. currently stands in the middle of those countries, reporting high difficulties and a low level of obstacles to hire developers of cloud-based technologies.
A recent report by Cloud Foundry revealed an escalating gap in cloud skills, which is threatening enterprises’ abilities to implement digital transformation processes. The survey of nearly 900 IT executives worldwide found companies are doubling down on training internal engineering teams to address the skills shortfall as digital becomes the modern business core competency.
“The other solutions we are primarily seeing enterprises use include external hiring and implementing technologies, like Cloud Foundry, which help developers be more productive,” Davis said.
The report also showed a majority (64%) of companies see the gap and are starting to feel its impact. The Cloud Foundry said as companies start their cloud journeys, including the use of more cloud-native architectures, broader use of containers and multicloud environments, they will feel the shortage more acutely. Fifty-seven percent of surveyed enterprises state this shortage has already impacted their ability to hire skilled people.
Surveyed companies are giving priority to certain specialized skills such as mobile application development, language-specific coding and deployment on specific infrastructure-as-a-service, while other skills such as continuous delivery, continuous integration and test-driven development show the least demand. The most in-demand skills are database (47%) and specific coding languages (Javascript, C++, Go, etc.) (46%). These are followed by deploying on a specific infrastructure (38%) like Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform, and mobile application development (38%).
“As companies embrace cloud, they’ll need to continue to help their developers grow along with their business. This will include a combination of training and new hires. In addition, bringing in pre-built cloud applications to solve specific problems can help create a thoughtful and holistic digital transformation,” Davis added.
