IT Team Skill Survey Reveals 78% Use Outsourced Staff

The overall trend for cloud computing has been widespread adoption, although the rate varies. As more companies, small and large, look towards moving their IT infrastructure into the cloud, they have to overcome a number of challenges in the actual migration, securing the environment, and training their employees.

Previously, security was seen as the biggest obstacle to cloud adoption, but the recent surveys show that lack of resources/expertise is now the number one cloud challenge (Rightscale 2016).

Green House Data wanted to see how IT professionals perceive their own team’s expertise and abilities in light of these trends. We surveyed 944 IT professionals, with 64% at the executive level, to discover what the biggest challenges are in their daily work.

The results reveal some interesting facts, including that nearly 40% of IT teams must rely on outside staffing on an ongoing basis in order to complete their tasks. Security was seen as the biggest skills gap, with nearly 40% listing it as a weak spot on their team, followed only by performance monitoring at 32% and communicating effectively, also at 32%.

In a world where managed cloud services and outsourcing IT are growing, it is telling that 78% of IT departments must use outside supplementary staff at least once per year.

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Read on for more results and the complete charts from the survey.