In IT hiring, DevOps is a growing trend: Dice

18.09.2012
The current economic recovery may be proceeding far more slowly than most would like, but when it comes to , two trends appear to be going relatively strong.

First is that --a position some have said would disappear in the near future--are holding their own in terms of demand from employers, according to a September from IT careers site Dice.

"The system administrator role is one employers are still trying to fill," said Alice Hill, managing director for Dice.com. "I don't see this position going away in the foreseeable future. Changing, yes. Eliminated? No."

Specifically, the role is evolving to become more strategic and less task-based as servers migrate to the cloud, Dice suggests.

Then, too, there's a growing reliance on , or the practice through which development and operations teams work side-by-side more closely than they traditionally have.