Virtualization and Cloud Computing Hiring Outlook

Virtualizing servers and applications that belong to business units — ERP applications, collaboration software, for instance, or rather than firewalls, load balancers and other IT-focused apps — the IT people doing the migrations need more than just virtualization skills. They need security, application development, business-process management, and soft skills like user management, Bowker says.

The services industry is particularly strong in IT hiring right however, especially in business consulting, legal services, outsourcing and management consulting, Reed says. As well at the top of the list of hot industries are financial-services and healthcare companies -- both of which are IT-heavy and undergoing lots of overhaul.