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What is Skill Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
What were the demographics of the survey?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Which Industries Pay the Most?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Industries and Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
From Start Ups to Enterprise: Administrative Roles in Different Size Companies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Tool Use Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Security Analysts & Penetration Testers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
System Administrators / System Engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
What you need to do next. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Netherlands
Belgium Switzerland
Singapore
Poland
Spain
Brazil
India
Australia
United States
France
Italy
United
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Germany
Canada
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This stream of our survey contained the most experienced people with an average of more than 15
years of experience, with a diverse range of roles represented across respondents:
By Job Title
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200
System
Administrator
System
Engineer
DevOps
Engineer
Security Analyst
/Penetration
Tester
Database
Administrator
20% of our survey respondents work in IT security; the remaining 80% work in the broader category
of IT administration, which contains four of the roles shown above.
becoming
more
prominent
for
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0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
Consulting
More than
20 years
Education/Academia
/Research
Finance/Banking
10-20 years
Government
5-10 years
Health/Biotech
/Science
Media
/Advertising
/Entertainment & Gaming
3-5 years
Software Products
Telecommunications
1-3 years
Web Services/Internet
Less than
1 year
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
working in Media/Advertising/Entertainment
Database
Administrators
are
at enterprise level.
company type.
Penetration
Tester
Start-up
System
Administrator
Self employed
DevOps Engineer
Database
Administrator
SME
Security Analyst
System Engineer
Enterprise
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$10,000
$20,000
$30,000
$40,000
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$50,000
$60,000
$70,000
$80,000
$90,000
The two leading operating systems are most prominent here, but we can also see a wide range of
tools for some very different tasks.
Lets go into more detail.
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Python comes out on top, but also note the diverse tools referenced here. Kali Linux is evidently
still a popular tool, as well as Metasploit and nMap, but the appearance of web based tools and
languages also indicate exactly where security experts are focusing their attention.
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roles.
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months.
months?
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Penetration Testing
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non-technical
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skills
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such
Functional Python
Programming
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Puppet.
Evidently
solutions
that
allow
popular.
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Puppet Essentials
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Learning Chef
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Learning Ansible
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Learning SaltStack
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Environment Cookbook
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Do you see tools such as Vagrant and Docker disrupting the way you
work in the future?
Database Administrator
No
Don't know
Yes
DevOps Engineer
Penetration Tester
Security Analyst
System Administrator
System Engineer
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
top titles:
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Orchestrating Docker
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[Video]
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Docker Cookbook
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CoreOS Essentials
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Ansible
Chef
Puppet
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management.
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dominance.
No current plans,
but a possibility
in the future
Yes, we're
already there
No, never
100%
Yes, we're
already there
80%
60%
Yes, in the
next 12 months
40%
No, never
20%
0%
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Database
Administrator
DevOps
Engineer
Penetration
Tester
Security
Analyst
System
Administrator
System
Engineer
Cloud.
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No current plans,
but a possibility
in the future
Yes
80%
60%
No
40%
Don't know
20%
0%
Database
Administrator
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DevOps
Engineer
Penetration
Tester
System
Administrator
System
Engineer
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Security
Analyst
trend increases.
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Open Source
80%
60%
Not sure
40%
Enterprise
20%
0%
Database
Administrator
DevOps
Engineer
Penetration
Tester
Security
Analyst
System
Administrator
of
virtualization
customization
and
experimentation,
key
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respondents)
System
Engineer
lies
believe
with
the
future
Enterprise
of
tools.
80%
Not sure
60%
40%
No
20%
0%
DevOps
Database
Administrator Engineer
Penetration
Tester
Security
Analyst
System
System
Administrator Engineer
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More than
20 years
5-10 years
10-20 years
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DevOps Tools
Weve talked a lot about the DevOps philosophy, but what tools do DevOps Engineers use
day-to-day?
This tag cloud visualizes the responses from DevOps Engineers about the tools they use:
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technical self-sufficiency.
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technologies
(MongoDB,
Redis,
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DevOps role.
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Mastering Puppet
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Whats also interesting are the skills we see when we use a tag cloud to visualize the results.
We dont see quite so many tools and technologies, but we can see the non-technical skills that are
essential for DevOps Engineers:
People skills and technical leadership stand
out here, demonstrating the unique position of
DevOps Engineers within their organizations.
Their work exceeds the purely technical. If we are
going to see an increase in the number of DevOps
Engineers over the next 12 months, as many of our
respondents believe, then it will become crucial
to cultivate these skills, which are, arguably, even
more difficult to develop than purely technical
knowledge.
Weve now seen what DevOps Engineers are using. We also looked at what they wanted to learn:
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Summary
The presence of DevOps has been large in our
in
security
solutions.
organizations.
Reliability
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range of languages.
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IT professionals.
the way.
Data Analyst
Editor
Design
Greg Roberts
Richard Gall
Chris Murray
Project Manager
Technical Advisor
Sarah Cullington
Julian Ursell
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Published 2015