Cloud Computing – Has affected the job market in all sorts of ways

The shift towards cloud computing has affected the job market in all sorts of ways, and not only in the IT sector. Shifting IT to the cloud allows senior-level executives to spend more time on business strategy and innovation. It creates a demand for managers that are more focused on business development, rather than application development. Non-IT cloud related jobs include jobs in sales and marketing, product management, customer service. There are also jobs in all sorts of fields requiring potential employees to have familiarity with cloud-computing concepts. According to WANTED analytics, a leader in the field of business intelligence of the talent marketplace, at the end of 2014, there were 3.9 million cloud computing related jobs open in the US, of which 384,478 were IT jobs. Globally, the number of open cloud computing IT jobs was 1,533,742. The majority of these jobs are located in China, with the next largest concentrations being in the US and India. The 384,478 cloud computing IT jobs had a median salary of $90,950, or $116,950 for positions that pay over $100,000.

In 2012, Dice.com data described on http://www.networkworld.com showed that cloud computing professionals in the United States would earn on average, $11,500 more than the median tech salary. In addition, Robert Half Technology research, showed that cloud-computing related salaries were continuing to rise between 8% to 10% annually, compared with 3% to 4% growth in the average IT salary. The graph below shows that the number of jobs including the term “Cloud-computing”, listed on Indeed.com, was at a low point at the end of 2014, but was picking up into 2015.

At the time of writing, a search on technojobs.co.uk for job descriptions including the word “cloud” returned 741 open jobs in the UK, while the same search on dice.com returned 1780 open jobs in California alone. So even if job availability is not at its historical peak, it is still a very strong job market.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at The Cloud Computing Job Market | Cloud Academy eBooks.