Hiring Demand for Cloud Computing

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:24:00 GMT

If you’re a developer looking for work, you better look to the cloud.

According to Wanted Analytics, it’s to the cloud that the jobs are moving. The business intelligence provider for the talent marketplace is reporting that more than 3,000 new online job ads that required cloud computing skills, representing a whopping 68% Year-over-year increase in demand.

Some other statistics of note include:

- Computer Programmers and IT Specialists are most commonly required to have cloud computing skill sets.

- Computer Software Engineers (Applications) experienced the highest demand, with more than 700 new jobs advertised.

- Computer System Engineers experienced the second highest volume of job postings and Web Developers, despite seeing the third highest ad volume, had the highest year-over-year increase of 150%.

Wanted Analytics Hiring Scale, which is something we’ve covered at WM previously, measures conditions in local job marketers by comparing hiring demand and labor supply. The top five metro areas with the highest hiring demand, you ask? San Jose, Seattle, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and New York.

Elance Work Index - September

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:29:00 GMT

Elance released their September work index today, a report highlighting hiring trends in the freelance marketplace. Trends from this month's index include:

- The presence of Search engine optimization (+18 in the 17th position), content writing (+5 to the 9th position) and article writing (+2 to the fourth position) indicates companies realize they don't necessarily need to pay for traffic.
- The index indicates that companies are reinventing themselves as branding made a significant jump (+25 to the 54 position) and Public Relations was newly added to the list (in the 87th position).
- PHP regained its number one position as the most sought after skill online. Other programming/development skills in the top ten include Adobe Flash, CSS, and Excel.

Some interesting points came to the fore during my discussion with Brad Porteus, Chief Marketing Officer of Elance this week, related to the trends Elance sees and the viability of their platform. A few statistics helped clear up any confusion or doubt (at least for me) about the efficacy of the Elance platform:

- 60% of projects are filled (considered to be when a "job" is actually assigned to a freelancer)
- Over 90% are ultimately paid (Elance is an escrow service giving it a lot of credibility with buyers)
- Only 1% of jobs enter "dispute" (those that run into trouble are those which attempt to go around the system)

Porteus also addressed some specific areas that consistently top the Elance list including open source (specifically those dealing with the LAMP stack - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Design (namely presentation layer work such as graphic design) and as apparent in this month's work index (and mentioned previously), content writing and SEO.

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Hiring Demand for Cloud Computing

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