I Analysed 2,000 Cloud Jobs Ads: Here's What You NEED To Know

I wrote a bot that scraped and analysed over 2,000 job adverts, and here's what you need to know about the data.
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▶ A PRACTICAL START WITH CLOUD / AWS
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▶ WRITE A CLOUD RESUME THAT LANDS YOU THE JOB
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▶ BUILD YOUR RESUME (AS A PROJECT) USING CLOUD TECHNOLOGY
The “Cloud Resume Challenge” is a 12 step. I love the challenge, I’m an active member of the Discord, and I have a whole playlist on KZbin to help you complete the challenge. There is a book (it’s optional), but I strongly recommend it. Get the “Cloud Resume Challenge” book:
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[@Miles_Above]

In an industry where titles are EXTREMELY confusing, especially to newcomers, this video is very helpful.

[@openupthecloud]

Totally agree, will be doing more content based on roles, thanks for stopping by, Miles!

[@immanuelt613]

@@openupthecloud This is a very good idea, we really need more role-based content

[@thechubbypuertorican917]

@@openupthecloud as to this with zero experience and no knowledge, this video very much was helpful

[@openupthecloud]

What about the data surprised you the most? What questions about getting into the cloud do you still need answering? Let me know and hopefully I can make it a topic of a future video ! ✌ - Lou

[@andramezie1382]

Thank you, Lou. This will help me on my journey to become a Cloud Engineer/Dev. This is quite insightful and will help anyone interested in Cloud on areas to focus on.

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks for stopping by, Andra, and best of luck !

[@maz4725]

Hey! Can you share an update on your complete journey til now?

[@willsmith2910]

Thank you for all the info here, just getting into the industry from IT support and there is so much information, so this really helps narrow it down. thanks

[@RichardBlakemore-BeMoreCyber]

Great video - Also thanks for sharing the gitlab and your recommendations - its interesting to see the Security Engineering focusing on Networking but it does make sense

[@openupthecloud]

Yeah, I stumbled into this Tweet also a few days after! Unpopular tech opinion: I think more people should learn networking before trying to jump straight into cybersecurity. twitter.com/Alexxussh/status/1559955274282291201?s=20&t=XzV8JycJjnJq2RIXbSiWJA

[@justthej]

Thanks for pulling all this data. Very helpful and insightful.

[@sidgupta417]

Great insights..much recommended for people who are trying to figure out the skills they need to acquire, a big thumbs up.

[@omarmohsen7408]

Can you run the script again this year and provide results in reddit :)

[@ShahinHemmati2020]

A video jam-packed with a lot of curated informations. thank you for sharing 😊

[@openupthecloud]

You're very welcome, Shahin!

[@IceyBoy47]

Awesome video, its always nice to get an insight into whats going on in the industry. I was wondering is there any books or other online materials you would recommend for learning the practical fundementals for networking?

[@Vladimir_Mohammed_Putin_JR]

The best to learn networking once you have studied or taken a cert as CCNA is to get a job maybe in a TAC which will boost your nest step way more than just studying networking.

[@dineshd2930]

Great insight... and clearly mentioned focusing on roles rather learning everything

[@nancychauhan397]

This is super cool! Thank you for the analysis

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks, Nancy!! 🚀🚀🚀

[@poorpanda9033]

Thanks a lot for this info. Such an under-rated channel !

[@chiche8803]

I am a fan of what you do and thanks for this great video. Waiting for the follow up videos

[@openupthecloud]

Chi che! Thanks so much, and great to see you!

[@omare5908]

Amazing video!! Thank you! Subscribed and liked. This information is so useful and reassuring.

[@openupthecloud]

Great to hear Omar, if there are other questions you have, or things you'd want to see, send them my way!

[@RafeedMohtasim]

would love to see a follow up, perhaps with location separation as well and salaries

[@ReverseJP]

Very helpful informations you have here! Thank you for your work.

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks for stopping by!

[@abhijitsalvi6021]

Can you please guide which career path would be smooth transition for non tech individual/ non programming background into cloud career, Is AWS Solution Architect is only path, please elaborate. Thank You!

[@alexisxander817]

This video is awesome mate! Thanks!

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks Alexis! 🤘

[@sachinvarma5197]

Thanks for your Analysis, Lou.

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks for stopping by, Sanchin!

[@DallasFort1857]

what is your opinion on wgu's cloud computing bachelor's degree program?

[@mektrode]

Cool video. Surprised SRE did not come up which tends to have a bias more towards Observability and incidence response (including on-call). Would have been interesting to see those skills comparison with SRE mixed in.

[@openupthecloud]

Yeah, I think this Tweet covers that: ⬆ Unsurprising to see monitoring tools like Grafana going up +25%, and distributed systems going up (+17%) ⬆ Interestingly more "core" / fundamental skills go up: containers +21%, Docker +25%, networking +33% and Linux +23% are all up. twitter.com/openupthecloud/status/1546750409011859456

[@ElTerceroCharles]

How can we build our own scripts to do this?

[@Rgroose]

this is great, thank you ! do you think that in an updated version of 2023 the results would be different?

[@KenSherman]

You made a video about almost exactly what I was thinking. Is this area specific?

[@gurmindersingh-wl1vm]

Do we still need to read books to know the insights in the era of Chatgpt ?

[@TheGarageroller]

Tanks, really interesting. at 13 minutes from my experience, I would not advise to learn Salt or Chef, I have not seen those tech used for years specially in a cloud environment. For IAC it's generally like you said Terraform and Ansible (For automation where you dont want/need to keep a state) Cloud formation (in house AWS) and Azure Resource Manager (ARM, Azure in house). GCP push on Terraform instead of creating a proprietary solution. Thanks

[@rodrigofaria4884]

Great info! Tks for the effort!

[@prasanthbugga8381]

Great insights man...keep going 💥

[@Beyond_Tech_]

Does solution architect need to know almost everything you mentioned?

[@amanmanapure7753]

Thanks for sharing this information!

[@avikamjha4930]

You are the best Lou !!!

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks Avikam! :) Good to see you about !

[@sundayuloko1964]

Hi Sir, what about Oracle cloud?

[@networkingjoe3635]

bro, what mic u use? u sound great

[@loggerboy9325]

thanks for the info 👍👍

[@openupthecloud]

Any time, George!

[@abaldeon93]

great info

[@alexisxander817]

Great video. Good man.

[@openupthecloud]

Two comments, did you watch it twice? 😆 Thanks, Alexis!

[@alexisxander817]

@@openupthecloud haha... one comment for the good content, and the other for the good man.

[@hieuphamvietminh4655]

Thank you Alexis Mc Alister

[@nvasudeva]

Awesome video ! What are the skill set that you found against Solutions Architect role?

[@mamneo2]

Incroyable.

[@dmitrikonnov922]

Interesting, that neither Linux nor Shell/Bash/Zsh are mentioned in almost all rankings...

[@AdamPippert]

Those skills are table stakes for anything that touches the cloud. Windows is for kids.

[@darkwing451]

Great quality video and content. Thanks for the share.

[@openupthecloud]

You're very welcome !

[@chandramoulidasari3946]

Thanks Lou for providing valuable information. What SQL editor you used at the beginning of the Video..?

[@openupthecloud]

Hey Chandra, it's called "Postico": eggerapps.at/postico/ Been using it for years, it's very simple / straight-forward (which is why I like it)

[@jiaminzhu406]

Great video! I'm a bit surprised that you didn't mention openshift at all. How come I read openshift in almost ALL the devops/cloud engineer/solution architect job application?

[@mamneo2]

Incroyable.

[@golgappa3430]

Hi Lou, can u please turn on the captions for all of your videos? It would be really helpful

[@openupthecloud]

I think they are on now, just takes a little time for KZbin to process. If there are other videos with captions missing let me know!

[@samwilliams7694]

Freaking awesome video! I wish I had this when I was looking for cloud roles.

[@openupthecloud]

🤘🤘🤘 thanks, Sam!

[@xavierromerocarrion1369]

Excellent material. It has really driven me towards a certain path

[@JituKhatri-v1s]

great research and great presentation. derived a lot of value. made a good understanding. super!!!

[@GP-qb9hi]

Just a BIG THANK YOU!

[@castro4694]

Awesome data. Thank you!

[@stanleychukwu7424]

thank you for this wonderful analysis and information

[@rahulmitra91]

Excellent as always by LBJ

[@santoshperumal129]

Excellent

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks , Santosh !

[@ash98789]

Great work, thank you so much 👏