Post Pandemic - Over 100K new IT jobs in past 8 months

Over 100K IT jobs added in the past 8 months - 30,400 IT jobs created in the first quarter according to Janco

IT hiring ticks up as most of the jobs lost due to Covid and shut-downs have been recovered

Park City UT - According to an analysis by Janco, there has been growth in the IT job market each of the past eight (8) months.

IT Job Market Change - December 2024

IT Job Market lost 5,700 jobs last month in addition to the 6,600 BLS adjusted down in the prior two months

YTD IT Job Market growth

Updated with the data from the BLS and Janco Associates Inc as of January 2025. Analysis shows that IT Job Market has shrunk by 48,600 jobs in 2023 and 22,300 in CY 2024.

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IT Job Market shrank for the second year in a row - Over 60K jobs lost

There are approximately 98K unemployed IT Professionals. The IT job market shrank by over 60,000 jobs in the prior 24 months. Overall that is a flattening of the long-term growth rate pattern of the IT job market. Based on our data and forecast models, there will be limited growth in the IT Job Market in the calendar year 2025.

 

IT Job Market Forecast

IT Pros unemployed

Number of Open Jobs for IT Prosa
Data complied and forecast updated by Janco Associates with data as of January 2025

He added, "To support CIOs in managing this process, we have just released our Post Pandemic CIO Management Tool Kit. It contains everything that they need to have a set of functioning infrastructure policies, job descriptions, skill set definitions, compensation data, hiring tools, and post pandemic processes including WFH and cloud processing."

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