A talent drought is negatively affecting the UK’s recovery, as there are not enough skilled individuals around to be hired to fill those important roles and this after the 1.1M vacancies are taken into account.

Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle are growing quicker that AWS. Oracle Cloud grew 54 per cent, Google Cloud grew 28 per cent and Azure grew 26 per cent in comparison to AWS’s 12 per cent growth.

With the increase in global job opportunities in 2022, there was also an increase in worker stress. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2023 polled over 120,000 employees around the world to discover the major factors impacting their lives.

This month, Facebook announced that its previous stance on hybrid working was changing, switching to a demand that staff return to the office for a portion of their working week. They had previously been told that they could permanently work remotely after Covid had died down.

According to an Upwork study surveying business leaders in the US, 64 per cent stated that they expected to hire more workers thanks to the anticipated economic boon surrounding Generative AI.

According to Adastra, the majority of IT leaders believe that the data industry faces a talent shortage. Around 75 per cent of the leaders expressed concern regarding the skills gap around Analytics and Data.