labor market updates 

Date range: 2022-02-01 to 2022-02-18

• Increase in median wages for AWS FinOps Engineers (+2.27%)

• Large increase in open roles for AWS FInOps Engineers (+71.43%)

• Large increase in ML Engineer demand (+105.68%)

• Large decrease in wages for AWS Networking Engineers (-12.27%)  

• Decrease in median posting duration for Data Engineers and Solution Architects (-5.10%) 
  

weekly overview - what’s new?

Welcome to another issue of CloudCast. Diving right into the data for January, we have some notable highlights: 

• Marginal decreases (<0.10%) in open role quantities for Serverless, FinOps, Networking, and Machine Learning Engineers. 

• Median salary for AWS DevOps Engineers increased +1.18% in January

• Open roles for AWS Data Engineers increased a whopping +10.49% in January
  (those of you who aren’t following @joe reis 🤓 on LinkedIn… maybe now is a good time 😉)

• Median salaries for AWS Data Engineers saw a +3.68% increase in January 

• Median salaries for AWS Security Engineers saw a +2.00% increase in January

Though his report is slightly dated, these data are mostly consistent with Sai Senthilkumar’s findings in his covering of trends in the data and ML ecosystem (@Sai).

weekly overview - what’s new?

Welcome to another issue of CloudCast. We do not have aggregate numbers for January’s labor market trends, so we will be doing a deep dive on another role profile (AWS Solution Architects), covering common problems within cloud governance, and talking about some open source tools we think are paving roads within the domain. 

breaking down “cloud governance” 

Similar to how we organize the roles of cloud professionals by commonly used tools, we organize tools by the problems they were built to solve. In short, by taking a collection of tools within a domain we can generate a list of “problem categories”. Using this strategy on “cloud governance” we find the following:

weekly overview - what’s new?

Welcome to our second issue of CloudCast. While some of the aggregate unique postings have dropped for AWS professionals, these changes are minimal compared to last week. FinOps is still hotter than ever though, so we are going to do a deep dive on skills sets in demand, in addition to covering some notable AWS feature releases.

notable aws releases

“AWS announces changes to AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles permissions: