Tech vendors and their channel partners will see another 12-18 months of tech talent shortages, according to Gartner group.
The analyst outfit said that demand for cloud architects, cybersecurity specialists, app developers and other tech roles will continue to outstrip supply, even as the big tech firms cut staff.
Gartner senior director analyst Mbula Schoen said that the talent influx was not enough to nullify a tech skills shortage made worse by the need to digitally transform in the wake of the pandemic.
Big G thinks that the talent crunch will exist for 12-18 months before we start to see it easing.
According to Gartner’s Q4 2022 Job Opportunity Barometer – which has measured employees’ perception of the availability and quality of other employment opportunities in their current locations, industries and function since the start of the pandemic in 2020 – remained relatively optimistic about their roles.
Big G said that it is still an employee market right now with shortages apply as much to tech vendors and channel partners as they do to CIOs.
The main shortages are for cloud architects, IT security, application developers, product managers, enterprise architects, AI and data analytics.
Most big tech layoffs have centred on business rather than IT functions.
Big G thinks that the best way for firms to cope is to take tech-adjacent functions such as finance, and repurpose them as all-out techies, .
“We can’t expect CEOs and tech leaders to sit and wait for 12 months because they have to go ahead with their digital transformation efforts,” Shoen said.
“You might have someone sitting in finance who has a maths degree and is a hobby coder at home. Previously the opportunities in IT were blocked because we had very specific requirements. But we’re seeing CIOs casting the net wider and saying ‘we’re going to invest a lot more in our upskilling and reskilling; we need to look internally and understand whether we have competencies that, with investment and upskilling, we can bring into it projects,” see said.
