Digital and IT Skills - Mind the Gap
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Presentation delivered by Justin Black, Senior Manager, Digital Technology & Software Development, Hays Recruiting at College Development Network's 'Developing the Digital Workforce' event on May 15th, 2017.
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Digital and IT Skills - Mind the Gap
- 1. Scottish IT Market Tech vs Skills Justin Black Senior Manager Hays Information Technology 15 May 2017
- 2. 2 AGENDA Introduction How many Jobs? Skills and Stats Conclusion
- 4. Justin Black Senior Manager @ Hays Lead a team of technology recruiters in Glasgow
- 7. 7 Top 4 Priorities for Scottish Business 36% 34% 30% 29% Business Transformation Cloud New Product Development System Integration
- 8. 8 Reasons for need • 36% - Top Priority • Customer Demand – 24/7 Access • Competitive advantage • Digital Transformation
- 9. 9 Cloud Technology • Cloud – From concept to practical solution • Skills – Citrix, VM Ware, Azure and AMS • Cyber Security – EU Legislation
- 11. 11 Project Managers >8000 people in Scotland 10% - Agile experience (800 people) 10% - Cloud delivery experience (800 people) 9% - Change Managers (750 people)
- 12. 12 Development Market has just under 34000 people and is split into: 15795 in Glasgow 18432 in Edinburgh 3400 .Net Developer. 3600 Java Developers.
- 13. 13 Infrastructure <4000 Infrastructure Engineers in Scotland 1% have CISSP Qualifications 19% have experience with Virtualisation 150 are VCP accredited
- 14. 14 Data and Business Intelligence >3500 Data People in Scotland 2900 people refer to themselves as Data Analysts 32 Data Scientists
- 15. 15 Conclusion
- 16. Start getting involved in Tech! Get me on Linkedin Email me: justin.black@hays.com We need you
Editor's Notes
- My name is Justin Black and I&apos;m a Senior manager a Hays Recruitment. I currently manage a team of technology recruiters in Glasgow focused on recruiting people in all technologies for businesses who need them. This type of focus gives us invaluable in-depth insights into the local markets so we can assist our clients with their resourcing and workforce planning agenda&apos;s. The reason for me being here today is to give you an idea of our current findings local to Scotland to give you a bit of flavor to we need more people studying technology at school, colleges and universities. Today I&apos;m going to be covering off 2 main things. Firstly to show you how big the demand is for skills in Scotland and secondly how wide the technology skills gap currently is.
- 6183 technology jobs have been registered by businesses and recruiters across Scotland in the past 8 weeks. That is 154 every working day. He need in the market is huge and the trends are showing growth. According to IHS Markit, which is an organisation that analyses job data from recruitment agencies across the UK, the need for permanent people has shown its sharpest growth in 21 months but candidate availability has its sharpest deterioration in 9 months . In April temporary and permanent job growth have reached multi-year highs. ScotlandIS is the trade association championing Scotland&apos;s vital digital technologies industry have shown in their latest membership survey that up to 84% of their members are expecting to recruit and 72% are looking to recruit graduates. We did a project and change survey last year and one of the key findings was that 39% or organisations we surveyed said they do not have the resources to deliver their key priorities.
- Project and Change Report: The main 4 priorities for Scottish organisations are: Business Transformation (36%) Cloud (34%) New Product Development (30%) System Integration (29%)
- Change and Business Transformation The driver for change in 36% organisations is down to customers expecting access to brands, services and products 24/7. Optimising strategy and technology for mobile devices and cross-platform compatibility in marketing communications is essential to attract and retain a customer base. The low barrier to entry in certain sectors has technology levelling the playing field between big corporates and small businesses as all businesses can reach national or international customer bases regardless of location and size. Online retail is a great example of how e-commerce has levelled that field. The widespread adoption of this tech will have an effect on the amount of skills available to implement this tech as the customer is going to expect this type of engagement with businesses as the norm. There is already a shortage of professionals with the right skills within mobile, web, UX and UI as developers in these areas are not only sought for digital transformation projects, but often to play a vital role in marketing functions. The need for organisations to attract customers through mobile devices and social media integration has driven demand for IT professionals to work in what was traditionally seen as the marketing space. The appetite for Digital Transformation over the last 12 months has sparked a demand for contractors across all industries. The permanent market has remained stable.
- Cloud: Cloud is the most widely adopted project across all businesses surveyed but it has been beaten to the top spot of IT Leaders priorities by business transformation. This is an area where a lot of large businesses are investing their IT Budgets. They are also looking at systems integrations. The appetite for Cloud is showing that it is moving from being a concept to a practical solution. Organisations are realising the potential of cloud and moving towards making it a part of their everyday operating model. We are already seeing demand for cloud architects, Engineers with virtualisation experience, knowledge of Citrix, VM Ware, Azure and Amazon Web Services. One of the major concerns around Cloud and general IT is Cyber Security. EU financial penalties introduced this year for security breaches have caused organisations to give greater consideration to their security processes. Despite the UK’s changing relationship with Europe, focus on cyber security and data protection will remain vital across all industries. The greater focus on this area following the new legislation is likely to exacerbate the existing skills gap for cyber security professionals. The fine is up to 4% of global turnover. That gives you a general overview of what businesses are considering and going to be carrying out in the next 12 months. The real problem is that although Scotland has a diverse set of skills when it comes to IT, the quantity of people with the right skills to carry out these project and change programmes are limited.
- The project market is really difficult market to define as anyone doing a project call themselves a Project Manager. According to APM they have 23000 members in Europe and PMI have 3500 members in the UK. Change The Scottish population of Project and Programme Managers is just over the 13K mark with just over 8000 people referring to themselves as dealing within IT. The IT PM market is healthy with over 36% of the market share. The majority of these PM’s have strong experience in different areas of Microsoft products, however, when you start looking for people with experience delivering specific Cloud projects the population drops to 800 people with only 80 people stating they have delivered specific projects using AWS and Azure technologies. The Digital PM market has approximately 3000 people in it. There are 800 people who have agile experience in the market but there are only ¼ of them have Digital Transformation as a speciality in their skill set. The PM space is an area where getting the right manager can make or break your project. The Project Management Institute has stated recently that poor project management practices cost organisations an average of $122 million for every $1 Billion spent. This represents an increase of 12% last year.
- 34000 people are currently referring to themselves as developers in Scotland according to StackOverflow – sounds like a big number until you go into the detail. The .Net market has a population of 3400 people in Scotland. This is a surprisingly low number when you consider the size of the market Microsoft has in Scotland. Microsoft is widely spread across the 3 sectors yet the population to support new developments or application changes is relatively small. When you also start adding in requirements like Angular and MVC the mark shrinks dramatically down to approximately 850 people thus exposing a tiny population of skilled full stack developers. This has created a strong contract market. The Java market is in a similar vein to the .Net market however the need for strong mid level Java developers has gone through the roof over the past 18 months. JP Morgan has set up Glasgow as an IT Hub of Excellence where they have been trying to fill 200 Java positions. At last count, I heard they still had 90 positions vacant. CGI, SLC and other smaller SME’s are all looking for Java Devs at the moment. The problem is there are 3600 Java Developers in Scotland at the moment of which 600 have Hibernate or Spring skills. The Front End development market is a market where we have seen massive growth over the past 2 to 3 years as mobile has become a huge priority for all businesses across the globe.
- The use of Cloud platforms being used within organisations, in both the public and private sector has risen massively within Scotland. We are consistently seeing organisations utilising Cloud platform solutions, whether Public, Private or Hybrid to streamline their Infrastructure and resulting in a greater requirement in specific cloud technologies. Out of the estimated 4000 people in Scotland who hold qualifications related to infrastructure technologies most of them are providing a support function. When we start talking about implementing solutions the mark becomes extremely narrow. There are 150 people across Scotland who claim to be VCP accredited. Out of the 1800 network engineers in Scotland only1% have CISSP qualifications. Cloud and Security are going to be the main themes in this market for the next 12 months – you just have o have a look at what&apos;s happened to the NHS over the weekend which again shows how vulnerable large organisations are and having the right skills in place is vital. Unfortunately the skills around Cyber are extremely low too.
- The data market is a really exciting one as the insatiable appetite for businesses to have data driven applications increases exponentially. The amount of people in data in Scotland is really small with Data Analytics is a key component of moving towards data science and currently Scotland has 2900 Data Analysts, 50% of which are currently working in the Finance Sector. Based on the experience London is having with this sector we see the data market as a key area of growth with demand for many organisations significantly increasing. With that in mind there are only presently 32 Data Scientists in Scotland. At the moment the development market around data is mainly focussed on Oracle and SQL but we are starting to see this market change as more open source technologies and other brands are making better and cheaper products. Data people are also being attracted from different areas outside of IT like Mathematicians and Statisticians who are being trained up to help businesses make sense of their data. This is an area where old tech is being challenged and although we focus on the core tech around Oracle , SQL and BI we are starting to look at predictive analytics and data science as this technology moves into its next phase.
- As you can clearly see that the IT and Digital is a sector that is booming. The need for skills far surpasses the supply and when you start looking at the specific technologies you really begin to realise that there is a colossal opportunity for young people to get involved in this industry. The beauty of technology is that is embraces all different types of people from super techy nerds to some of the most creative people on the planet. This however is not being represented by the uptake in people wanting to make a career out of tech. The old stigmas of tech and engineering have created a massive gender gap which needs to be bridged. There is a lot of effort being made to bridge this gap by technology leaders and SDS but the Universities, Colleges and Schools need to step up to the mark to introduce tech and coding earlier into schools and make sure it is carried on through the learning cycle into the Unis and Colleges. This needs to be done in line with current and emerging technologies. The sector in Scotland is producing companies that are exploring Space to measuring golf analytics. We have Skycanner and Fandual to boast about. We need more people to build more companies like them – it could be anyone in this room. If you&apos;re interested in having a chat about tech and some more detail on what I&apos;ve touched on today, get me on Linkedin or email me on jusin.black@hays.com.