It’s Coming Home?
I am sending June’s newsletter the day after one of England’s greatest ever competition results in beating Germany, so football and the Euro 2020 tournament have to be mentioned! I dug deep into my old photos and thought it would be fun to share this month’s profile picture of a *much* younger me at the Euros in Portugal in 2004. I could not resist asking the chap next to me for a photo; he was very obliging!
Moving back into our world, June has continued to be a busy month for us here at Prism. There seems to be no slowing down in the market with companies looking for DevOps and Cloud Engineers. This is creating a very candidate scarce market with huge competition between organisations to snap up the best engineers. If you are a manager hiring in this space, my best advice would be to move *fast* on your decision-making process, as good engineers are not hanging around for long!
With people now gradually returning more into the office, I have noticed there is a growing misalignment between some organisations and their new hires around remote working preferences. It is turning into a sensitive area, and we have seen in some cases new job placements fall through at the final hurdle as the expectations were not made clear at the beginning of the recruitment process by one or both parties. We spent some time on this last year surveying candidates on their views of remote working - the results are very interesting! You can read the report here: WFH Survey. It is key for businesses/departments to have their remote working policy really ironed out so candidates and companies can be aligned from the offset. Likewise, candidates need to make clear their remote working preferences, so employers fully understand their wants and needs. This will help avoid problems, disruption, and expense further down the line!
We have seen Google Cloud Platform (GCP) skills become more in demand this month compared with others. Given that there have been some bold predictions around GCP gaining a more sizable and solid share of the public cloud market, perhaps we are starting to see this truly develop. Are you interested in GCP and how it compares to other cloud platforms like AWS? You might want to check out one of our previous ‘DevOps VIPs’, Phil Wigg running through an intro of GCP in one of his talks.
Something else which is hard not to notice is the increasing
number of cryptocurrency-related businesses that are appearing in the
market. Whether it is established firms setting up their own new
platforms, or brand-new start-ups, it seems to be a booming new sector. With
that in mind and given the current trends elsewhere in the broader tech market,
the fight for the best talent is set to get even fiercer. We hope you are
all ready!
As always, if you want to talk to me about the market, DevOps trends, etc. do not hesitate to get in touch, it would be great to hear from you. Book a call with me here
I hope you had a great month and see you in July!
Thanks,
Alex (DevOps) Dover
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