Jumping the IT Talent Gap: Cyber, Cloud, and Software Devs

While hype over artificial intelligence may be spurring organizations to hire professionals with matching skills to maintain a competitive edge, many businesses have more fundamental IT talent gaps.  

An April survey of 1,400 executives and IT professionals found skills gaps throughout cybersecurity, cloud, and software development — along with interest in skill development for these areas for 2025. 

In fact, understanding tech skills gaps is something many organizations struggle with — just a third of executives surveyed said they completely understand their organization's skills gaps, and 68% of technologists say that business leaders aren't aware of their IT skills gaps. 

Chris Herbert, chief content officer at Pluralsight, says to combat this lack of knowledge, business leaders need a data-driven approach to uncovering skills gaps.

"This can be in the form of tech skills assessments, which can benchmark where technologists fall on a sliding scale of expertise in a given tech skill," he says.

He adds that it can be useful to survey tech teams internally in areas where they feel they need to deepen their skills. Creating a culture of learning always starts at the executive level, he says.

"Business leaders need to be vigilant about the areas where their tech teams are falling behind and set up systems and initiatives that will help enable direct managers to assess their team's skills on a consistent basis," Herbert says. 

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