How ready are UK businesses for this cloud revolution? In a new study of 250 mid-sized to large UK organisations, Microsoft found that there’s a wide gap between those who have the right skills and those who don’t.
Cloud Skills are critical to transformation:
More than half (57%) went further to state they viewed cloud skills as critical to digital transformation. Given that business initiatives such as the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, advanced analytics, blockchain, and servitization are all reliant on the cloud.
Finding the right people is a challenge:
One big challenge was finding people with the right skills. 38% of those who had been involved in recruiting people with cloud skills in the past 12 months said it was difficult to find the right skills.
Expectations on cloud skills availability are misinformed:
In fact, last year marked the fifth consecutive year of a rising UK skills shortage, particularly in the technical engineering and specialist technology roles into which cloud skills fall. Even as the number of people with the right skills grows, the demand for those skills will increase at a faster rate.