Xcede Market Share Analysis for November 2025

Our cloud computing recruitment division has been placing Cloud professionals for over a decade. This expertise has provided us with a front-row seat to the cloud talent shortage. It's reached crisis levels, let’s look at the reasons why. Fast-Paced Development: What's really behind the skills gap? It's not that companies are looking for superstars with skills that no one has. It's that cloud technology is evolving faster than education can keep up. Universities teach the basics—virtual machines. But companies need the latest and greatest: serverless architecture and container orchestration expertise. Cloud services are launching new features every month. IT courses update their curricula every two to three years. Certification training are usually six to twelve months behind what companies really need. That leaves on-the-job experience as the only reliable way to learn and that's where the real