8 Best Cities to Find Cloud Computing Jobs

The rise of cloud computing has companies looking for specific talent. CIO.com spoke with Jack Cullen, president of Modis, a national IT recruiting firm, to find out where the demand is in cloud computing and what major factors are driving that growth. Modis measures the demand for cloud computing jobs based on demand from its clients.

“This new environment of outsourced infrastructure, outsourced data warehousing started as a simple concept–let’s move it from your environment to ours–but now it’s creating more complex roles,” says Cullen. As that complexity builds companies need individuals who are knowledgeable about their environments from both a business and an IT perspective. Here are the Top 8 cities for cloud careers.

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St. Louis is in the “Show Me State” of Missouri and is home to the Great Arch, an impressive silver structure that reaches into the clouds like a harbinger of IT things to come. In an effort to avoid costly upgrade, replacement and infrastructure costs many companies are getting on the cloud bandwagon. “St. Louis is seeing demand for cloud opportunities within start-ups as well as telecommunications and data center companies,” says Cullen, “this seems to be fueling the growth for cloud services here.”

Texans like things big and it shows with most of Houston’s cloud job growth being attributed to cloud companies servicing large enterprise organizations such as oil and gas companies and, to a lesser extent, financial institutions. According to Modis data, all of these organizations, in an effort to cut cost, are moving specific technologies into the cloud so they can redirect their savings into product and service development. “Organizations are selecting specific technologies across their enterprise to outsource to the cloud based on their internal capabilities,” says Cullen.