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"Human transformation is the single most critical success factor to enable DevOps practices and patterns for enterprise IT organizations," said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. "Traditional upskilling and talent development approaches won't be enough for enterprises to remain competitive because the increasing demand for IT professionals with core human skills is escalating to a point that business leaders have not yet seen in their lifetime. We must update our humans through new skill sets as often, and with the same focus, as our technology."
Key Findings from the DevOps Institute's Upskilling 2020: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report include:
The DevOps transformation journey is still very difficult
The DevOps transformation journey is still very difficult for more than 50% of respondents: Managing the people, processes and technologies associated with and necessary for a DevOps transformation are all difficult. Each category has received the same amount of responses for being a challenge.
Finding and attracting skilled DevOps Humans continues to be a challenge
Finding and attracting skilled DevOps Humans continues to be a challenge in 2020 — 58% of respondents in the report said finding skilled DevOps individuals is a challenge, and 48% say it's difficult to retain skilled DevOps professionals.
Salaries for experienced DevOps engineers can reach beyond $179,250, according to the Robert Half Technology 2020 Salary Guide.
Combined with the current skills gap, 2020 will be a tough year for hiring managers and HR leaders. As Jeff Weber, Executive Director of staffing firm Robert Half Technology, said, "The search for DevOps talent is pervasive in organizations of all types and sizes. A DevOps professional in one company might need different skills and experience in another company, which makes recruiting and hiring very difficult."
The DevOps Human must be hybrid
The DevOps Human must be hybrid and equipped within three key skill categories. Process skills and knowledge (69% of respondents), automation skills (67% of respondents) and human skills (61% of respondents) are the top three must-have skill categories in 2020. This is a change from the 2019 research where automation skills were the top skill category and process skills and knowledge was ranked as the second most important must-have skill category.
Upskilling requires the attention of business leaders now
The challenges of upskilling aren't new and according to the World Economic Forum are the biggest challenge across the world with the tech job. Unfortunately, over 38% of respondents' organizations have no upskilling program, 21% are currently working on one, and 7% don't even know if their organization has an upskilling program. 31% of respondents, however, have indicated that their company had already implemented a formal upskilling program within their organizations.
DevOps is getting competition from Site Reliability Engineering
Agile, DevOps and ITIL are getting strong competition from Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). While Agile adoption (81%), DevOps adoption (75%) and ITIL adoption (25%) have grown since the 2019 benchmark report, SRE has risen from 10% adoption in 2019 to 15% in 2020. Additional philosophies such as Value Stream Management (19%) and Systems Thinking (13%) are also being leveraged. Many of these disciplines and/or frameworks co-exist within organizations.
Methodology: DevOps Institute, a global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, prepared the Upskilling 2020: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report. For the second year, the report defines the most critical and in-demand skills needed around the world to meet DevOps transformation objectives within enterprise IT organizations of all sizes. The data that underpins the report was collected through a global community research project and open survey from more than 1,200 respondents. The research and data analysis was led by DevOps Institute's Chief Research Analyst, Eveline Oehrlich, with support from Platinum Sponsor ServiceNow, Gold Sponsor CloudBees, Silver Sponsor BMC, and Bronze Sponsors Micro Focus and HCL UrbanCode.
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