IT Hiring Improving?

Here are some interesting data points about IT hiring from an industry article I just read. As usual there are some mixed indicators, but hopefully the market continues to improve.

• IT unemployment rate (5.5%) is only about half the overall market (9.8%)

• IT budgets are expected to grow a bit in 2010 (IDC predicts 2.9% growth and Gartner estimates a 1.53% increase)

• Hiring is increasing in areas including New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston (according to Robert Half Technology)

• Robert Half reports that health care organizations plan to increase IT hiring by 5 percent in the fourth quarter, while overall IT hiring is expected to remain flat

• Network security, especially securing government data, is one of the most desired skills (according to Dice.com)

• Many projects with higher paying skills have been put off, but the associated skills remain in demand : .Net, ERP development, SharePoint development, Virtualization (according to Dice.com and Robert Half Technology)

• Much of the hiring is occurring on the desktop side, desktop support analysts, PC techs, as well as program analysts and web development (according to Robert Half Technology)

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