Lack of manpower with Information Technology skills! Based on the data from the Equinex 2022 Global Survey of Technological Trends, companies in our country are urgently launching an SOS.
The 64% of these states that they have problems finding personnel with qualifications in key areas of YOU What cloud computing either Artificial Intelligence (AI)something that is aggravated by seeing how digital demands increase progressively every day.
One of the alternatives that is gaining weight is for the technology companies themselves to offer a Training program that allows them to adapt the workers to their style, based on the real needs that their company presents. They have the collaboration of superior educational institutions specialized in YOU (represents the 31%).
The other alternative, and key for companies, is partner with higher education institutions that include internships for students in leading companies of YOU. It is followed by the 35% of survey companies.
Thus, within the sector of YOU, the most demanded profiles are:
- Cloud computing specialists (27%).
- IT technicians (25%).
- AI/Machine Learning specialists (22%).
- Experts in security architecture (22%).
- Profiles specialized in data protection (20%).
- Data analysts (17%).
- Security analysts (17%).
However, and despite the continuous evolution of AI, it is expected that the main need in terms of YOU in Spain in the face of 2025 will be to find qualified IT staff Y cybersecurity architecture.
Companies are working to Transfer staff from other areas to those with the greatest shortage of personnel. The 62% of companies are following this option, while the 3. 4% this Hiring staff from unrelated sectors. But once again, in Spain we are at the tail of these data and they are translated into a 43% Y 27%respectively.
The non-specialized sectors in which the companies fish the most YOU They are: business administration and support (40%), retail and wholesale trade (26%) and long-term unemployed (26%).
These ‘refished’ for the department YOU of companies usually carry out, after a previous acquisition of competences, functions of: computer technician (56%), analysis of data (30%) and cloud computing (29%).
What are the biggest concerns of companies?
Undoubtedly, in Spain this is related to the retention of current talent, which represents 52%. He is followed by changing expectations of workers around the forms of work (39%) and the large number of job applications applied by candidates with inadequate skills for the position offered (38%).
industry YOU It advances by leaps and bounds, companies are transformed and the options to find qualified personnel are reduced, since the authentic technological marvels choose to leave the country to large companies where they are offered better salaries and conditions. The objective of Spanish companies should be none other than to avoid the dreaded ‘brain drain’.
In Spain currently more than 58,000 job offers are linked to the sector YOUwith the most demanded positions being those of cloud architect, web developer and experts in data and information security.
In fact, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) ensures that the ICT employment has grown a 18% in the last two years and that recruitment forecasts in the coming months will exceed the fifty%. The problems They are the lack of qualified personnel, the talent deficit and the little interest of professionals in updating themselves in IT.
