Predictions 2015

I predict that turkeys will continue to vote for Christmas. Much of the reseller community has taken the Cloud to heart, now assisting their customers into the waiting arms of Microsoft or Google or Amazon or some other global powerhouse. Everything-As-A-Service, their Mail, Docs, Security, Backup, Apps etc, absorbed into the engine rooms of these Monsters. Oh yes, think of the Capex vs Opex arguments in the CFOs office and it’s only a question of time until … the infrastructure refreshes dry up ‘coz all those servers aren’t needed anymore, or the storage, or all that networking kit either.

But, you cry, we’re deploying our own Cloud solutions, we’re doing it in house, we’re not giving our customers away. Seriously, you convince your customers that Cloud is the way to go and then think you have a hope, long-term of competing with the economies of scale that the monsters can bring to bear… No, you don’t. It’s not too late to change.
 
 

However, most candidates are either engaged in their employment or working on longer term contract assignments. When a contractor becomes available, it has become normal for them to have several options to choose from. We have seen good contract vacancies go unfilled for longer than a month simply because the available contract resource had even better options elsewhere.Whilst increased demand was previously mainly evident in Dublin alone, demand for technology talent has now reached other cities, most notably Limerick and Cork. For professionals willing to work away from home, more options will lead to a chance to increase their financial expectations.

Heightened demand in the cities will also eat into the candidate base in nearby smaller towns, leading to non-city based organisations potentially losing their talent. Should the non-city based companies not be able to keep up financially with their competition, we will end up with key technology hubs within the major Irish cities – and little in between.

In terms of skills, front end development is going to see the greatest growth. With focus very much on e-commerce and user experience, UI developers will be highly sought after and experience in skills such as Angular, Backbone, and other frameworks and libraries will be invaluable to businesses.
 
 

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