Now more than ever, cloud computing is the way work gets done. And increasingly, companies are embracing a multi-cloud strategy and moving more workloads to the public cloud.

In InformationWeek’s most recent State of the Cloud report, nearly half of respondents (44%) said that they do the majority of their computing in the cloud, up from 31% who said the same the previous year, and 55% said that they were investing and relying more on public cloud services.

A separate survey from Forrester and Hashicorp tells a similar story. Respondents said that a year ago, only a third of their workloads ran in the public cloud. But they expect that number to climb to 61% within the next 24 months.

And companies don’t expect this trend to change, even if the economy gets worse. In fact, rumors of an impending downturn seem more likely to accelerate public cloud plans. A survey from Flexera found that economic uncertainty increased cloud usage and spend for 45% of respondents, while only 10% reported a decrease.

In order to keep these cloud plans on track, organizations need employees with the right mix of cloud skills. In the Forrester survey, respondents ranked skills shortages as their No. 1 barrier to a successful multi-cloud strategy. And in the InformationWeek survey, the percentage of people surveyed who said staff skillset was one of their biggest concerns climbed from 26% the year before to 30% in the most recent survey.

So what are the skills that companies doing business in the cloud need?

The following slideshow highlights 10 skills that are essential for nearly every enterprise, no matter its industry. If you’re a manager, you need to make sure that you have each of these abilities on your team. And if you’re an IT professional, you might want to consider acquiring some of these skills if you want to stay hirable.