# DevOps Market knowledge. ## Notes >[! Info] Notes from [[Mischa van den Burg|Mischa van den Burg's]] **Skool Community (Free) [DevOps Roadmap](https://www.skool.com/mischa) Class** ### Geography & Salary - Mostly are in North America. - interesting trend presented; in North Am, jobs doubled from 2022 to 2023 in the same quarter. - Most jobs are on-site or hybrid. Few remote jobs. >[!cue] Annual raises (9%) are outpacing general ==inflation== (~5%) North America; avg salary $124k..avg raise = 9% vs 5% inflation rate. EU; 85k euro. ### On-Call status? - based on job postings, 86% **do not** require the candidate to be on-call. ### Experience Matters - most jobs are at "senior" level, but the problem can be overcome with the right moves. - Leveraging communication skills will be critical to overcome the "sr. level" barrier ### Certifications Rarely Matter - 91% of jobs do NOT require any certification. - Can make you stand out in the crowd. - Care more about the experience / practical experience, so certs are not everything. ### Tech you should learn - Docker - PostgreSQL - Kafka - Spark - Airflow - RabbitMQ Enterprise DB Operator DB ?? ### Programming Languages - Python - Java - Go 29%. - most cloud native tooling is written in Go. - Javascript 27% - SQL ### CI/CD Pipelines Top three - GitLab - Jenkins - CircleCI ### GitOps Tools Not a well understood section - ArgoCD - Generic GitOps - Flux ### Configuration Management - Terraform - Ansible ### Observability tools - Prometheus - Grafana - Datadog ### "Tech Market" When someone reports on how tough the "tech market" is, or how many layoffs occur we need to be careful on what "tech market" means. Does it mean, "SWE" or "DevOps" Both ? Neither? ### Kubernetes' future. 1.46B market val, projected to grou 9.69B by 2030 Its the OS of the Cloud. ### The path forward. LEARN DevOps and Kubernetes, RIGHT NOW <hr> >[!summary-top] DevOps Roadmap No.1 >Video presents MvdB's argument on why one should learn DevOps in 2024 by learning the current state of DevOps & Kubernetes; what future prospects may look like in the field. > >There is a LOT of ground covered in the video, but 100% is practical. Addresses if certificates matter (answer: Y & N), addresses the techstack and which tech to focus on. A lot of new concepts for me to organize programs into specific domains like CI/CD pipelines, GitOps Tools, Configuration Management, Observability tools.