{"id":10840,"date":"2023-03-15T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/env-8605394.mightybox.site\/?post_type=news&#038;p=10840"},"modified":"2024-10-10T00:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:14:40","slug":"mixed-it-employment-landscape","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/reports\/mixed-it-employment-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed IT Employment Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>IT Jobs Continue to Slip in February Despite Unfilled Positions<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>IT Jobs declined 0.12% month-over-month in February despite an unemployment rate in IT of only 2.1% in Q4, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the Technology Staffing and Solutions Industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment was down 1.59% from February 2022, a net of 87,000 jobs. The Engineering sector showed a year-over-year job growth rate of 3.49% with the addition of 93,600 jobs during the year and with an unemployment rate of 2.2% in Q4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the aggregate, U.S. IT employment continued to decline reflecting softer demand in some sectors of the economy.&nbsp; In particular, tech companies are retrenching after over-hiring during the height of the pandemic and its immediate aftermath,\u201d said Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance.&nbsp; \u201cHowever, actual employment of individuals does not happen in the aggregate.&nbsp; Many companies in a range of sectors continue to have difficulty hiring for high-demand IT skill sets.&nbsp; With a historically low IT unemployment rate of 2.1% in Q4 and with hundreds of thousands of open positions, the IT employment landscape does not fit a single narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.techservealliance.org\/hubfs\/Content\/Research\/IT%20Index\/TechServe%20Alliance%20March%20Employment%20Indices.pdf\"><em>Download pdf for details<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":26,"template":"","topics":[249],"class_list":["post-10840","reports","type-reports","status-publish","hentry","topics-it-index"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/10840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=10840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}