{"id":65821,"date":"2025-01-15T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/?p=65821"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:52:36","slug":"it-employment-closes-2024-effectively-flat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/news\/it-employment-closes-2024-effectively-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Employment Closes 2024 Effectively Flat\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While December capped off 2024 with surprisingly strong overall job growth, the IT employment market remained effectively flat, dipping 0.03% month-over-month with year-over-year decline of 0.29% according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association for the IT &amp; Engineering Staffing and Solutions Industry. Employment in Engineering dipped as well (0.04% month-over-over month) but was up 0.35% year-over-year, adding 9,900 jobs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-65825\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image.png 975w, https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-768x491.png 768w, https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-600x383.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile IT employment remained anemic throughout 2024, there are \u201cgreen shoots\u201d warranting increased optimism for 2025.&nbsp; Despite the softer numbers in IT, the sector&#8217;s Q4 unemployment rate of 2.7% highlights the underlying demand for skilled technology professionals,\u201d observed Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, with the election over and much of the near-term economic uncertainty dissipated, we are hearing from industry firms that many IT projects that were sidelined are expected to come back online.&nbsp; The critical need to incorporate AI and protect against cyber threats will continue to accelerate demand for professionals in those skill sets for the foreseeable future,\u201d added Roberts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For more details, please<a href=\"https:\/\/content.techservealliance.org\/hubfs\/Content\/Research\/IT%20Index\/Jan%202015%20TechServe%20Employment%20Index.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/content.techservealliance.org\/hubfs\/Industry%20Update\/TechServe%20Alliance%20Jan%202025%20Employment%20Index%20(1).pdf\">\u00a0download the pdf<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":65825,"parent":0,"template":"","topics":[249,405],"news-topics":[],"member-content":[417],"class_list":["post-65821","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topics-it-index","topics-mark-roberts","member-content-open-to-public"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/65821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=65821"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=65821"},{"taxonomy":"member-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-content?post=65821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}