Driven by the pandemic, 2020 saw immense growth in demand for cloud roles globally. India recorded a total of 380,000 job postings for cloud roles, a 40% high over 2019, a Nasscom report in Accenture and TCS.
India, it said, managed to close around 115,000 of those openings, leaving 265,000 postings unfilled.
This huge gap is expected to increase to 769,000 by the fiscal year 2025, and that is pushing Nasscom to put more emphasis on creating cloud talent. The past few years have seen a big emphasis on AI, and Nasscom held an AI-focused conference for the first time last year.
“Now, people are saying cloud is more mainstream, it’s a foundational digital technology.
The instant n high change in remote work and remote transactions following the pandemic has made organizations realize that on-premise IT infrastructure just cannot provide the kind of capability that the cloud can. Cloud is also enabling a variety of innovative business models.
“Cloud has moved from being a relative backend to a front-end (business-facing) technology, enabling on-demand access to resources.
