As an industry underpinned by innovation, the technology sector can be its own worst enemy when it comes to skills. Cloud technologies are evolving more rapidly than previous generations, but workers aren’t being trained or upskilled quickly enough to meet this demand. As a result, the industry continues to face a widening skills gap, with just over half of UK businesses (57%) ranking hiring the right tech talent as their biggest challenge, according to TechUK’s latest Digital Economy Monitor Survey.
The skills required in this challenge are constantly evolving, too, thanks to the developments in areas such as cloud-native applications, microservices, Kubernetes, containers, and hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2027, 44% of workers will see their core skills disrupted because technology is moving too fast, and only half of workers will have access to adequate training. In a world where we rely heavily on our phones, the data they need and their underlying cloud infrastructure - addressing the cloud skills gap is vital for success – particularly within the likes of financial services, telecoms and manufacturing.
