“2012 should emerge as the year when the cloud firmly establishes itself within business practices, a poll of UK IT bosses shows, indicating a significant shift will potentially be required in IT workers’ skill-sets.

According to a poll of 250 IT decision-makers, more than a third believe that the role of the IT professional has changed in the last year and will continue to evolve over the coming 12 months” -- Contractor UK

Over the last couple of months, the Cloud has really established itself within the IT community - not only within business practise, but more commercially as well; with the launch of Apple’s already-very-popular iCloud.  It’s no surprise that more and more IT leaders will look for their current and future employees to have acceptance, understanding and knowledge of Cloud technology.  Hopefully we’ll see this technology spread to many different arenas, especially truly ‘business critical’ sectors such as medicine.  The less paperwork there is, the more medical professionals can work together and share information therefore making patient care more effective and efficient.

As an IT recruitment and solutions company, I think we are going to see more and more Clients wanting knowledge of Cloud technology as a prerequisite for potential hires - as it becomes a staple in day-to-day working life.

So the moral of the story is...the Cloud is here to stay!