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 – UTe-janco.com – 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 - August 2024

IT Job Market grew by 4,000 jobs last month - lost 12,700 jobs YTD

YTD IT Job Market growth

Updated with the data from the BLS and Janco Associates Inc as of July 2024
Analysis shows that IT Job Market has shrunk by 48,600 jobs in 2023. In the first eight (8) months of 2024 the IT job market shrank by 12,700 jobs.

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The CEO of Janco Associates, Inc., Mr. M. Victor Janulaitis said, “There is great news for IT Professionals.  Companies have hired back almost all of the IT Pros who lost jobs as the shut-downs are ending and vaccines are available.  Since August of last year, over 100K jobs have been added for IT Professionals.  30,400 of those jobs were added in the first quarter of this year.”

Janulaitis added, “We believe, with the increase in government spending and the desire to rapidly get back to normal operations, the total IT job market will continue to expand rapidly in the second quarter as more businesses open and get back to normal operations. “

The CEO followed up with, “We forecast that close to 100K new IT jobs will be added by the end of the 4th quarter of this year.  CIOs now are no longer in survival mode.  Now they are looking ahead to the post-pandemic operating environment. “

IT Job Market will have modest growth (if any) in CY 2024

There are approximately 145K unemployed IT Professionals. The IT job market shrank by over 48,600 jobs in CY 2023. 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 modest growth (if any) in the IT Job Market of just under 5,000 new jobs added in the calendar year 2024.

 

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 August 2024

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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.

IT Management Tool Kit - Read on

Janco is an international consulting firm that follows issues that concern CIOs and CFOs. The firm publishes a series of IT and business Infrastructure HandiGuides® and Templates including IT Infrastructure Policies and Procedures, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Template, Security Template, IT Job Descriptions, and its semi-annual IT Salary Survey.