2022 Recruitment guide: Cloud Services

Cloud computing and cloud services have changed the way companies operate. Businesses across all sectors are shifting from on-site IT infrastructures to cloud-first, especially as the Hybrid working model sustains.

This pace of change is bringing strong competition for the best talent at an enterprise level, and at the same time creating urgency for small-to-medium sized businesses to shore up expertise in their IT or Operations teams.

If you’re planning to planning on recruiting talent to support your Cloud Services, in this guide you’ll find information on…

〉 What’s behind the demand for Cloud Services professionals

〉 A look at the global Cloud Service Provider market

〉 Insight into what major companies use which provider

〉 How a Cloud Services expert fits into your business and why its a critical hire

〉 A top-line guide to recruiting for a Cloud Engineer

〉 Average earnings of Cloud Services experts in the UAE with market comparisons

〉 The projects getting Cloud Services professionals excited

THE CURRENT STATE OF CLOUD SERVICES

• Cloud technologies are dominated by three service providers.
• As companies continue to sustain a Hybrid working model, businesses across a range of sectors are shifting from on-premise infrastructures to becoming cloud-first.
• ‘Cloud’ skills and experiences were the most in-demand talent attributes in 2021.
• The rapid rise in Cloud-based IT infrastructure is creating a gap in the supply & demand of experienced Cloud IT professionals.
• The cloud technologies market and corresponding skillsets are shaped by an array of infrastructure as service or platform as a service technologies.

BEHIND THE DEMAND FOR CLOUD SERVICES PROFESSIONALS

Cloud Services is the delivery of infrastructure, platforms, or software that are hosted by third-party vendors and made available through the internet. These resources include tools and applications like data storage, servers, databases, networking, and software applications.

The increase in reliance on cloud services technologies is driven by companies focused on delivering greater results rather than focusing on resources.

With so many people transitioning to working remotely, cloud computing and access to cloud services is playing a major role in the way many companies do business – whether it’s creating a virtual space for meetings, providing remote collaboration tools, or reducing the need for hard copy file storage.

85% of businesses worldwide are currently using cloud technology to store information, and market analysts indicate the cloud services market value could reach $623.3 billion by 2023.

With this, companies are actively investing in skilled people over investment on hardware and other on-site infrastructure – meaning the demand for IT & Tech talent with skills aligned to Cloud tech is high.

CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER MARKET SUMMARY

With the world pushing beyond on-premises limits, the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) market is bulking up. It stands to see
a shade over a $136 billion upsurge by 2025 as organizations are bullish about cloud adoption to avoid backup issues, scaling barriers, storage limits, and server management hassles.

Cloud platforms have come a long way from being just virtual machines to now becoming treasure troves of services.

Provision of Cloud services is largely controlled by three providers. AWS is enjoying dominance by securing around 32% of the global market share, while Microsoft Azure follows AWS with 19% of the global market share. And, GCP is in third place with a global market share of 10%.

WORLDWIDE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES SPEND

Three Cloud service providers hold a commanding lead in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) market, accounting for 58% of total cloud spend in 2021.

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF CLOUD SERVICES

The AWS solution dominates the US, South America, most of Europe, India, and plenty of other smaller regions.

Microsoft Azure is prominent in Northern Europe in the Scandinavian region, as well as Poland, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Portugal.

Alibaba is the most popular service provider in China, where it has more than 40% of the market share.

Google Cloud Platform does not dominate cloud services solutions in any part of the world.

WHAT PAAS OR IAAS DO GLOBAL TECH COMPANIES USE?

By understanding the distribution of Cloud services and which major tech companies are claimed as clients, you can gain useful insight to use in your search for top-tier talent – particularly if enterprise-level experience is a requirement.

RISE OF THE CLOUD SERVICES EXPERT

With a Cloud-based systems rapidly becoming a necessity in today’s business operations, so too has there been a shift in demand for IT & technology professionals that identify as Cloud Services professionals.

Job designations and remits in Cloud Services vary widely, but the catch-all designation of Cloud Engineer dominates. This is because a Cloud Engineer can perform a variety of functions: from building, maintaining and monitoring cloud services, to ensuring the infrastructure runs effectively and remains secure. As a result of this dexterity, we see many smaller organizations often looking to hire a single cloud engineer as a generalist.

In contrast, larger enterprise-level organisations are more likely to break the role up into multiple, skilled specialisms including cloud architects, cloud software developers, cloud system engineers and cloud network engineers.