Mexico Telecoms Recruitment Insight 2022

November 2022: Telecoms Recruitment in Mexico in 2023

The value of the telecoms market in Mexico

The Latin America (LATAM) telecommunications market is currently worth $81 billion USD (according to Statista), up from $78.82 billion in 2020. Of this, Mexico is the second largest telecoms market in LATAM at $26 billion USD, preceded by Brazil. And with companies such as America Movil making upwards of 855.5 billion pesos ($44.3 billion USD) and Grupo Televisa making 103 billion pesos ($5.3 billion USD), we think it’s safe to say that the Mexican telecommunications market in 2023 is going to be a great year for recruitment.

Telecoms Recruitment in Mexico in 2022

We recently attended Mexico Connect – an event that brought together business leaders to discuss emerging telecoms and tech advancements and the deployments of new systems and software. In addition to meeting familiar faces from his vast technology and telecoms network, Luz spoke with industry leaders to get their opinions and predictions on recruitment within tech and telecoms for 2023, and what impact this may have on the overall telecommunications market in Mexico. There was one standout topic of conversation at the event – an ambitious project that’s being developed to connect Miami and Veracruz via a cable under the sea that will also connect Queretaro to Mexico City. Luz commented: “This will help Mexico immensely and in the near future Central and South America will have the capacity for faster communication. Naturally, there will be a surge in recruitment to get telecom experts to bring this plan to life. Very exciting times!”

With speakers from Neutral Networks, Gold Data, AT&T Mexico and Oracle, one panel focussed on how Mexico is emerging as a digital & Wholesale hub. This discussion was essentially about how Mexico has evolved and overcome infrastructure challenges to have many Data Centres open in Queretaro, how this is helping the country to be attractive to foreign investment and what other cities could follow the same path and attract investors to have new Data Centre cities. Also, the necessity to keep growing the capacity of internet connectivity in many cities will benefit companies, the government and the entire population! Luz commented: “The current focus in Mexico is data centres and automations. This is a market that we can venture into a lot more. It’s exciting to see the investments being made into new and existing businesses in Mexico and how the investments allow us and other companies to grow.” It’s clear that the impact investments are having is going to benefit data centres, nearshoring and telecom infrastructures. This will allow room for growth and development in these areas and with Mexico’s geographic position being an advantage to companies wanting to expand into South America.

The outlook of recruitment activity in 2023

2023 looks to be the year for new projects which will increase the demand for telecoms engineers with specific skills to lead and execute roles. It was clear from the discussions throughout the event that companies will be focused on recruiting candidates to help implement new projects in the industry. Luz commented: “Mexico is in a good position with the growth set to continue throughout 2023, and recruitment activity not slowing down. Mexico has a very good position which is to become a bridge for telecom companies to expand to Central and South America, meaning there are many plans to open an office in Mexico.”

Overall, it’s apparent that 2023 will be a growth year for Mexico with recruitment activity looking busy and investments continuing to come in. We look forward to seeing the development businesses will have when adjusting to all the new changes and how that will impact the telecoms industry in Mexico.

July 2022: LATAM Marketing Update Q3 2022: The Cloud market keeps increasing in sizeIn January, I wrote my predictions for the telecommunications recruitment market in LATAM along with three of the hottest telecommunications jobs. I followed this with an article highlighting how the grow of 5G deployment was dominate across LATAM (specifically in Chile). Alongside this, there has been a huge increase in the number of jobs in Cloud across all of Latin America. According to a recent market update, the Latin America Cloud Storage Services market will be worth $145bn by 2026. This is a huge increase in size given that it was valued at $2.4 billion in 2021.An increase in jobs in CloudAs per the above report, “the impact of global lockdowns, business continuity changes and growing trends at home, COVID-19 forced organizations to move to cloud environments”. With the increase in demand for Cloud, we have seen this translate into a more jobs in Cloud being recruited for across Latin America.A report by Ken Research, produced a six-year forecast in 2018. In this report, it stated that within “Telecom & IT sector huge amount of data is generated, owing to this, the sector has emerged as the largest adopter of cloud computing and accounted for a major share in the region and is expected to maintain its dominance during the forecasted period.” That was before the pandemic expediated the need for Cloud astronomically.  Of all the Latin American countries, Brazil leads the way with the largest need for cloud solutions, followed by Argentine, Chile.Three of the hottest jobs in Cloud in Latin America and their key responsibilities:Network EngineerDeployment of Cloud Projectsimplementation and integration of the productsTesting of laboratory environment for new solutionsProvide internal support and preparation of documentationCloud Integration EngineerImplement, install, configure, integrate the elements of the solution to be deployedPreparation and updating of the documentation concerning the infrastructure of the projectSurvey requirements and interaction with businesses on issues of dependency and particular needsSemi-Senior Cloud Product DeveloperResearching and integrating open-source software componentsWriting code to improve an open-source toolsRecruitment for jobs in cloud within Latin America is currently booming and 2022/23 is expected to see exponential growth. If you are considering a career move for a new job in cloud, contact me or our team in Mexico City.

April 2022: 5G continues to be the growth area for LATAM’s telco market