In January, IT employment barely eked out a small gain rising .02% to 5,351,000 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 grew by 0.40% since†January 2018†adding 21,300 IT workers.
Engineering employment increased by 0.17 percent sequentially to 2,639,700. On a year-over-year basis, growth in engineering employment increased by 2.62% since†January 2018†or 67,300 engineering workers.
“With 2018 the weakest year of growth in almost a decade, IT employment limped into 2019 posting a barely perceptible .02% growth in January,” observed†Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance.† “In looking ahead, it hard to see how we muster meaningful IT job growth in the future given the talent shortage and ever more restrictive immigration policies,” added Roberts.
The complete†February 2019†TechServe Alliance Employment Indices can be found†here.
