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Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDG (www.theregister.com)

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System administrators and IT operations pros might want to rethink their careers, because analyst firm IDC is predicting substantial drops in the number of people employed in such roles.

The firm this week published its first "Worldwide xOps Census and Forecast" – a study that predicts "a substantial shift in the responsibilities of IT professionals will occur over the next five years."

"IT professionals in the most purely operational roles are facing a transition to a more technical or focused role that very often may involve some level of software development work," the firm asserts.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I tried the "move on to management" thing. It wasn't for me.

The ways we work (and the ways we're compensated) do seem to be in some sort of rapid decay death spiral though. No one knows what it means yet, certainly not IDC. And that's not even what they're talking about, they're just talking about trends in how technology is being utilized. AI disrupted everything, and it's not done and THAT isn't even what they're talking about.