In April, IT employment in U.S. increased by 0.35% to 5,340,400 jobs, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions Industry.
On a year-over-year basis, IT employment is up by 0.85% since April 2020 adding 45,200 IT workers. Engineering employment grew by 0.14% sequentially to 2,601,500. On a year-over-year basis, engineering employment increased by 4.85% since April 2020, adding 120,400 engineering workers.
“After nine consecutive months of strong growth, IT employment on a year-over-over year basis has turned positive for the first time in 17 months,” observed Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance.
“We have climbed out of deep chasm. While heartened by the strong consecutive run of IT job creation, we have now returned to the pre-pandemic environment where there is a chronic shortage of IT professionals in many skill sets. A problem with no ready solution,” added Roberts.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In March, IT employment increased by 0.39% to 5,318,800 jobs, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions Industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment has declined by 0.41% since March 2020 shedding 21,900 IT workers.
Engineering employment grew by 0.29% sequentially to 2,592,100. On a year-over-year basis, engineering employment decreased by 2.26% since March 2020, a loss of 60,000 engineering workers. After eight months of uninterrupted growth, IT employment will be back to pre-COVID levels within the next 30 to 60 days, observed Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance. The primary challenge we experienced before the onset of COVID confronts us again an insufficient supply of talent in many IT skill sets. Further supporting the data, our firms report many can