Change, Growth and Skills Within the Digital
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Description: Change Growth and Skills Within the Digital Technologies Sector in Scotland Lesley Broadwood Project Development Manager ScotlandIS ScotlandIS a brief overview Who we are and what we do The membership and cluster management organisation
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Change, Growth and Skills Within the Digital Technologies Sector in Scotland Lesley Broadwood Project Development Manager ScotlandIS ScotlandIS – a brief overview Who we are and what we do: The membership and cluster management organisation for the digital technologies industry 300+ member companies and academia Software development, telecoms, IT services, data science and cyber Connecting the industry and raising its profile Market intelligence, research and policy Skills, skills and more skills Digital Skills Partnership A ScotlandIS initiative supported by SFC and SDS Universities, colleges and industry Born from a need to meet industry’s rapidly growing and changing skills requirements Two main objectives Digital Skills Partnership With four key themes: Continuing professional development Curriculum development Support for students Careers and employability The pace of change Digital Tech roles today Product Manager Network Engineer Cloud Architect Scrum Master Mobile Developer Business Analyst Chief Technical Officer Digital Marketing Specialist Games Designer Software Developer The pace of change Digital Tech roles tomorrow… AI/ML developers/consultants Ethics specialists VR Developers 3D printing technicians Cyber specialists Data Scientists – all shapes & sizes IOT developers/ engineers UI/UX designers Tech marketing & sales support The global context 1M shortfall in Europe 500,000 in US 100,000 in UK Covers every type of role Technical, Analysis/Design/Test, R&D …but also other commercial skills Gender balance And in Scotland? 3,900 businesses 62,000 people directly employed 96,000 people in roles across the economy – 4% of Scottish workforce GVA £5.9bn; exports £3.3bn 12,800 new entrants needed every year Areas of growth Considerable growth since 2010 53% increase in the number of enterprises Significant growth in IT services and software development sub-sectors Now faster growth in tech roles in non-tech sectors GVA forecast to grow by 38% - fastest growing sector 72% of companies are optimistic about 2019 Areas of growth Data science, AI, Machine learning, cyber security Agile, DevOPs, TDD, Continuous delivery SaaS, PaaS, MaaS IoT and edge computing Python, R, Go, Rust, Swift… 5G, and beyond Voice technologies UI/UX Ethics Quantum What is the biggest skills issue facing the sector? Finding and recruiting people with the right technical skills and experience What skills is industry looking for? Sales and marketing Software and web development AI and machine learning Infrastructure support and management skills Data analytics Cloud computing skills .NET, Javascript and Python – most in demand languages Cyber skills What technical skills is industry looking for? Greatest opportunities for business lies with
