 Hello and welcome to this session on the 2020 open source jobs report and the implications in the age of COVID. My name is Clyde C. Posad and I'm the head of training and certification for the Linux Foundation. The certification and training group for the Linux Foundation's goal is to ensure that everybody has access to high quality affordable vendor neutral training programs on the key open source technologies that are increasingly at the center of all types of computing and in particular cloud computing as many of you know because you are part of cloud native forum here. So what I'm going to do over the next few minutes is share some of the insights that came out of the report that is hot off the press. It was just released a few weeks ago with the research conducted over the late part of the summer and we will go through what those key findings are and some of the implications on folks who are working in technology or those who want to be working in technology. So let's have a look here at what the key findings were DevOps. So one of the things that we have been surprised by is the rapid ascent of DevOps and interest in DevOps and it actually has been accelerated by the shift to the cloud that we have seen as a result of the COVID pandemic with many more companies looking to push loads to the cloud in part for cost reasons and part for tactical reasons and the difficulty of getting to raise floor private data centers. So perhaps not too surprising that almost two thirds of companies are hiring more in the area of DevOps just to really transition from the old world of siloed you know development QA prod into a more collaborative culture of DevOps and the workflows that entails. So this idea of complimenting your skills by understanding pipeline continuous integration continuous deployment there obviously a very wide variety of tool sets that is available is going to be something that is a very useful compliment to your career that you would want to be adding on it's really an area where companies are doing a lot of hiring. So next up is cloud obviously for cloud native con cube con environment clear majority right so 70 plus percent of companies hiring more clients with cloud skills again not surprising in a model where a lot of loads are being continued to be shifted to the cloud and particularly where the portability Kubernetes based systems is allowing for companies to move their loads into the public cloud with confidence that they're not going to have vendor lock in and so obviously this is a stack of skills right so when we say cloud skills we interpret that as meaning you know some base level of Linux skills because fast majority of the public cloud runs Linux as its OS and then Kubernetes as the orchestration layer for managing all those containers and so the clear indication that the value placed by employers on cloud skills is going to continue to increase and makes candidates much more attractive to potential employers. I think one of the questions that was at top of mind for us at the Linux Foundation and our partners at edX when we did this most recent jobs report was trying to get a finger on the pulse of what does this all mean in the age of COVID and how has that impacted you know we have a general sense of how that has impacted the economy as a whole but what specifically has been the impact in the tech sector and then hiring for IT professionals and I think it was a pleasant surprise to see that more and a few of companies far from cutting back are actually hiring more IT professionals over the coming months so I think that's a really good sign perhaps not surprising given the data on the earlier slides right that more people are moving to the cloud more demand for cloud talent but it definitely turns out to be one of the bright spots in the economy in the hiring side of the economy is this continued focus on pulling in more skills in IT in an overall environment where there's perhaps you know print sectors where those trends are going in the other direction so definitely a good time to be in the IT sector a lot of resilience so if we talk a little bit slightly and think about how do we develop talent because one of the challenges that's been long-standing has been the ability to recruit talent and develop talent and the shift that we've been seeing for several years now but it was really pronounced this year in the 2020 jobs report is the move to online training so fully 80 percent of companies are now providing online training courses I suspect many if not most of you watching this today have probably taken one or more online training technical courses in the past year or so and that trend does appear to be here to stay right that companies are focusing more on this as a really convenient footprint for developing delivering training to employees and the convenience factor of not having to pull people out for synchronous education where everybody is out at the same time you let people work at their own pace through these online self-study materials and that's also the way the vast majority of the training that we at the next foundation training provide is self-paced online e-learning somewhat related to that we have seen this continued rise in the desirability of certifications cc a couple of stats here from both perspectives the top one is from the perspective of hiring managers a majority for the first time over the years we have been conducting this research for the first time a majority of hiring managers are actively giving preference to certified candidates and the flip side of that you see two thirds of individuals are planning actually to take an exam this year again probably not surprising for this audience the kubernetes exams cka and ckd ckad have been particularly popular for exactly the reason of candidates wanting to demonstrate their skills and hiring managers wanting to see those skills hopefully everybody in this audience knows that the kubernetes exam cka and ckad are performance-based exams so it's not multiple choice you actually have live scenarios that as a candidate you are responsible for conducting those tasks and having them graded so it is very much a knowledge of skills-based assessment of your competence on kubernetes and I think the general shift towards having more performance-based exams is a part of this trend of the rise in the desirability of certifications so let's talk next about the big picture of where are we with open source talent this has been a topic that our researchers focused on pretty consistently since we started doing the survey and the continues to move in the same direction the 93% of hiring managers reporting difficulty you know I'm sure those of you who are on LinkedIn in the cloud space probably are getting a significant amount of requests coming in there's a lot of poaching going on because there's just not enough open source talent the demand is continuing to go up you see 81% of hiring companies making it a priority to hire more talent in this area probably not surprising for those of you on this call but it is an area where we at the Linux foundation view it as an important part of our mission right how do we create more on-ramps to open source talent and more ways that are affordable convenient and high quality for people to get the type of training and demonstrate the kinds of skills that employers are going to be looking for because there is still a lot of demand out there for open source talent and more demand than there is a supply of skills which is problematic and so trying to bring more people in really is a key aspect of trying to make this successful related to that is we're seeing more and more companies realizing that you can't just hire externally to address this gap so upscaling really is part of your recruitment strategy looking at your existing employees and figuring out how do we get them this upgraded skill set they need in an age where we're moving more loads particularly particularly to the cloud so over half of employees here 57 percent of employers are investing in upscaling their workforce trying to find trying to build that talent pool right linking back to the prior slide on just how much of a shortage there is and this also ties into the stack we saw earlier about 80 percent of companies providing online training right just a bigger emphasis on creating pathways to develop talent and you know one of the things that is interesting you know it's not always the you know sexiest element is just how important Linux continues to be as a must-have skill set you know vast majority of cloud instances you know 98 percent of AWS instances run on Linux so if you're talking about skills in the cloud world there is a sort of eat your veggies aspect right where having Linux as a core table-stakes skills is an important part of what it's going to take to to be successful and then let's just look at a couple other things diversity remains a challenge vast vast majority of employers 88 percent trying to make more efforts around increasing the diversity of their workforce interestingly only 70 percent of employees agree that they are seeing that increase so definitely more work to be done there and then finally just a quick plug there is a virtual training boot for the Linux foundation and encourage everybody to stop by that booth and ask questions so thanks again for joining the session if you have questions stop by the booth visit the website and good luck with your continued career cloud journeys