Summary Bullets:
• Global systems integrators and cloud giants step up efforts to meet integration demands of enterprise transformation projects.
• AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle more than doubled job requisites of DevOps roles between 2023 and 2024.
Over the past 12 months, cloud platform leaders have logged a staggering amount of job posts, largely among roles supporting business transformation, according to GlobalData’s job analytics data intelligence platform. Global systems integrator giant Accenture listed a whopping 103,517 jobs, while research surrounding other platform rivals was equally surprising. AWS posted 85,843 jobs; Oracle 49,533; IBM 31,733; Microsoft 6,278; and DXC 4,930. It is worth noting Accenture also closed over 105,000 job openings during the last 12-month period, while Amazon Web Services (AWS) closed over 87,000 openings, and Oracle over 49,000 jobs, having found candidates to fill these vacancies.
Company job themes by these vendors include: cloud, big data, future of work, AI, cybersecurity, social, supply chain, and others. These themes represent the types of jobs in high demand globally. (For more, please see the GlobalData job analytics graphic, last accessed for this report on January 28, 2025).
These job numbers reflect a massive increase in hiring compared to the previous 12 months (January 2023 to January 2024). During that previous year, Accenture posted over 62,000 jobs; AWS over 30,000; Oracle over 19,000; and Microsoft just under 3,000. IBM was the exception in this case, having over 43,000 job posts during this period, whereas it has decreased the number of its more recent job posts.
GlobalData produces detailed and timely intelligence on company hiring trends on demand such as job titles/requirements and regions. Statistics include hiring trends, news, and specific job openings on nearly 25,000 global technology companies and one million companies in general. For example, over 346,000 active jobs have been posted in recent months. These job postings are updated by GlobalData every Monday and are gleaned from vendors’ job post boards.
Interesting, platform engineering represented a key job opportunity at Accenture. This role, which sits within the DevOps model, ensures that all aspects of the enterprise developer platform are designed to support development/deployment of distributed modern apps. Accenture’s aggressive hiring efforts reflect the growing importance of providing enterprises with integration and consulting to better support complex app modernization efforts, particularly around the configuration of emerging workflow automations supporting microservices.
GlobalData’s data intelligence and analytics platform provides critical information about hiring trends for cloud computing and platform providers keen to understand where rivals are investing as they strategize their own investments in emerging DevOps technologies, integration services and consulting, and new personnel. There has never been greater concern among enterprises over the global IT skills gap as companies grapple to leverage new technologies including generative AI (GenAI), Kubernetes container orchestration, and observability, among others. Organizations, including verticals such as finance and manufacturing, tell GlobalData that they continue to struggle to find professional services and experts to help guide them in infra and app modernization. Detailed, real-time information about vacancies is an invaluable tool for tech professionals searching for a broader perspective on where the industry is headed.