I just ran my tool to get the-most-demanded-devops-skills-stats and noticed a small (or may be not that small) change:
jobstats -c -2 | head -20 azure 212 aws 194 kubernetes 66 terraform 56 gcp 55 git 48 docker 43 python 40 ci/cd 30 jenkins 28 linux 18 bash 10 ansible 10 scripting 9 unix 3 puppet 3 groovy 2 elk 2 chef 2 zabbix 1
When I first wrote the script and ran in in February 18, 2018 (4 years ago):
Azure was at 13 and ansible at top 5, and now azure is number 1! With ansible down to 13 not even in top 10.
And finally linux from top 5 to 12… this makes me sad…
It all makes sense, given sooner or later aws popularity will decrease as the competitors catch up (if not pass in number of features and ease of use) on one hand, and immutable infra and service discovery and pull vs push approaches puts ansible further away.
Situation with linux could be explained as rise of containers (especially managed orchestration like AKS/EKS) and serverless. As one of my colloquies said once, 80% of sysadmin skills from the past is redundant now.