The cloud skills gap is a major challenge for organizations looking to adopt cloud computing, and is impacting timelines for cloud migration and maturity.
- The gap is caused by a shortage of skilled professionals, escalating salaries, cultural issues, and lack of training.
- Retraining existing staff is difficult, and some organizations are turning to consulting and managed services to bridge the gap.
- However, even these services are struggling to keep up with demand.
- Organizations that are late to adopt cloud may find it even harder to generate internal competence.
- The skills gap could result in cancelled or scaled-back cloud migrations, and exacerbate market patterns where digitally ambitious organizations have outsized success.
