Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITeS (P@SHA) surveyed the modern-day training requirements of the IT industry in Pakistan. The survey revealed that the following are the seven technologies that companies are interested to get their resources trained within the next year:
Surveyed Population:
According to the survey, 61 percent of the respondents do not have internal training programs, and only 39 percent have an internal program in place that focuses on training fresh graduates as well as experienced personnel for the new technologies.
As for the details regarding the respondents, 47 percent of the respondents have less than 50 employees, and 25 percent of the respondents have an employee strength between 50 to 100. Around 50 percent of the surveyed entities have both local and foreign clients.
At the moment, companies are mostly working in MEAN/MERN stacks, cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure, native mobile app development, digital marketing, and other web development technologies. In the foreseeable future, around 54 percent of the companies will be focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) whereas, 46 percent will focus on Big Data and Blockchain, and 36 percent will be interested in working in Cloud Computing and MERN.
The results of the survey paint a vivid and detailed picture of the needs of Pakistan’s IT industry. Apart from technical training, IT companies are also interested in adopting agile methodologies of software development. It ascertains that IT companies are willing to assimilate the latest methodologies of working while updating the technical skillset of their employees.
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Regarding the training of resources, the survey detailed that 43 percent of the respondent companies are willing to spend up to Rs. 10,000 per head, 25 percent are willing to spend between 10-20 thousand rupees per head, 11.4 percent can disburse 20-30 thousand rupees, and interestingly, 18.2 percent are willing to expend more than 30 thousand rupees per head. However, in the last one year, 59 percent of companies did not provide their employees with any training opportunity, while 41 percent of the companies did.
Besides training of the resources, IT companies are also interested in different certifications such as ISO 27001, ISO 20000, and ISO 900.
Details About P@SHA
P@SHA’s Skill Development and Training (SD&T) committee is lead by the Vice-Chairperson of P@SHA, Shamim Rajani, and other members, including CEO Itroos, Salman Dar, CEO Contour Software, Bilal Mahmood, CEO 7Vals, Syed Ali, and CEO Vizteck Solutions, Barkan Saeed.
One of the objectives of the committee is to provide the right platform for carrying out technical training for the resources of P@SHA members, with the help of partners and consultants. Another program that will be implemented, is the CxO mentorship program, in which CxOs of larger firms will mentor the CxOs of smaller firms on how to scale their companies.
P@SHA’s SD&T committee will enable the matchmaking of the mentors and mentees as per the required expertise. All these programs will be exclusive for P@SHA members only.
P@SHA acknowledges the shortage of resource talent, based on the feedback of many of its members, including larger enterprises as well as Micro-Small-Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). To address this challenge, P@SHA’s SD&T committee recently surveyed to analyze the needs of the IT industry’s training requirements.
The survey was open for all to participate, and the results provided exceptional insight into the prevailing technical expertise, which is required by the industry currently as well as within the next six months.
