Improve skills must become an order of the organization to deal with a lack of IT talent globally, a new report shows.
However, progress is being made. According to the global report 2022 from DevOps Institute, their organization has a formal skills development (training) program. Improve IT skills. Meanwhile, only 32% said they had one in the institute’s 2021 study.
The report cited PwC and Salesforce as two companies that have developed successful skills development programs and as “great examples to learn from”.
PwC created the Digital Fitness2 app with training tools for various in-demand topics like artificial intelligence, machine learning and augmented reality, according to the report. Employees and others can earn degrees and micro-certificates through the app, which is now available to the public.
In the case of Salesforce, the Trailhead3 digital skills enhancement program allows learners to develop in-demand skills and earn certifications. Participants began by choosing a career path such as developer or data analyst and then completed the “pathway” to that career, the report said.
Talent shortage remains a major organizational challenge
Because many organizations are upgrading their legacy systems, they need to introduce new capabilities but are hampered by technical debt, making implementation too difficult. Insufficient resources and skills gaps are among the top three challenges facing IT organizations, according to 40% of respondents – and are expected to continue for many years, the report said. next year.
By 2030, the global talent shortage will reach more than 85 million people. Left unchecked, by 2030, the talent shortage could lead to around $8.5 trillion in unrealized annual revenue, the report said.
Furthermore, only 29% of tech companies have the right IT talent. According to a report by the DevOps Institute, by 2026, there will be a shortage of more than 545,000 software developers globally.
The most severe skills gaps are in cognitive (47%), technical (47%), and process and framework skills (45%).
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Top 5 must-have IT skills
There are five skills required for successful IT transformation:
- Process and framework skills (57%)
- People skills (54%)
- Technical skills (52%)
- Knowledge skills in automation / automation tools (49%)
- Leadership skills (49%)
Processes and Frameworks includes various frameworks and processes applied in IT organizations. People skills include emotional intelligence, psychological safety, dynamic learning, and transformational leadership.
A wide range of technical skills are important, including elastic infrastructure, containers, microservices, containers, APIs, serverless, DevOps toolchains, open source, and security management. Ninety-two percent of respondents identify cybersecurity and cybersecurity as key or important.
Automation skills including software engineering and supporting automation, ability to understand process flow and reorganize tasks, processes and procedures with the goal of replacing processes, tasks or manual events with automation.
Leadership skills include leading, coaching, guiding, and decision-making.
When it comes to comparing pre-pandemic and post-pandemic skills capabilities, “there appears to be a significant shift in the broad reduction in the specification of required skills.” , the report states. “While cautions apply to interpret the results, we suspect that organizations are becoming less demanding in their hiring practices for required skills due to shortages. skills in the post-pandemic world”.
Prioritize CIOs, CFOs and their business partners
The report also notes trends gathered from the institute’s research on the priorities of CIOs, CFOs and their business partners this year. Among them:
Technology predictions from various market research providers are consistent with
Market research firms like Gartner, Forrester, and IDC agree on the continued growth of cloud, containers, smart infrastructure, security, hyper-automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning and security, just to name a few. In line with these projections are the growth plans of these topics in 2022. Additionally, 59% of global CIOs say technology budgets have increased for 2022 and will return to pre-pandemic levels to ensure the availability of technology for innovation.
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Breakthrough technical skills pay more
As defined by Burning Glass, disruptive means are highly valuable skills that not everyone has. While employers need people with such skills, they also need to pay premiums for individuals who have them.
Leading organizations are building their workforce development strategies around the strategic goals of the business
Sixty-nine percent of survey respondents confirm that they match the skills need with the business outcomes they want to achieve or that they predict which skills are needed by assessing their current skill level. in the group.
Don’t get overwhelmed by the multitude of technical skills
Many DevOps Institute community members say they are overwhelmed by what technical skills they should extend. The technical skills required for an IT business are an understanding of cybersecurity and modern computing technologies such as serverless, microservices, container orchestration, and application technologies.
Leaders and individual collaborators are mostly matched for top-notch technical skills.
When analyzing the difference between the way leaders and individual contributors rate the importance of many types of people skills, there was no difference.
The report includes more than 58,000 data points from 2,476 survey respondents in 120 countries, the DevOps Institute said.
