Solutions and skills that support the virtual business operating model that accelerates out of this pandemic will be winners," Leary says. These include software-driven technologies, cloud-based services, higher bandwidth connections such as 5G, pervasive security capabilities, automated management systems, edge computing, distributed data sourcing and storage, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
These all "accelerate an organization's ability to provide a more flexible, agile, protective, proactive, virtual, and fast-moving technology infrastructure," Leary says.
Employers' need for cloud computing skills such as expertise with Amazon Web Services, cloud-based design, and cloud architecture will increase in years ahead, as companies realize that cloud-heavy infrastructure lends the necessarily resilience to their operations, says Paul Farnsworth, CTO of DHI Group Inc., parent company of IT careers site Dice.
Skills related to network and cloud security, as well as business continuity and data recovery, will be in demand as well.
"Cloud security is a huge topic moving forward," says James Stanger, chief technology evangelist at CompTIA, a trade association for the global IT industry. "To cut costs and increase resiliency and be more flexible, folks are moving to the cloud. We're also seeing companies that aren't used to the cloud be increasingly surprised at the lack of control" and loss of asset visibility the cloud can bring.
Companies are looking for individuals who know how to create cost-effective but capable alternative business platforms, Stanger says, in case a company's primary systems become unavailable or impacted by a stay-at-home order or other event.
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