Hiring Demand for IT Professionals Up 34%
WANTED Technologies Ranks Growth in IT Hiring Demand by State
NEW YORK, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The number of online job ads for Information Technology professionals is up 34% compared to last year, according to data from WANTED Technologies, which tracks job postings on over a thousand job boards.
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There were 185,000 online job ads for IT workers in April, compared to 138,000 last year. There are approximately 3 million IT workers in the United States, for a ratio of one job ad for every 16 IT workers. A year ago, 23 IT workers competed for the same job.
"Hiring Demand for IT professionals has shown real improvement over the past year," said Bruce Murray, CEO and President of WANTED Technologies. "However, total Hiring Demand for IT workers is still well below the 2008 pre-recession peak of 240,000 job ads."
IT hiring is on a year-long upward trend affecting most types of IT jobs. Web developers have made particularly strong gains, with the number of online job postings approaching 2007 (but not 2008) levels.
On a geographic level, Hiring Demand has bounced back well in California, the largest employer of IT workers in the US – Hiring Demand for IT professionals is up 36% in California compared to last year.
New York City, however, is the metro area with the strongest growth in online job postings, and Hiring Demand there now exceeds 2008 levels. Online job ads are up 74% in the state of New York, twice California's growth rate.
The following table shows the number of online job postings for IT professionals in the top 20 States by posting volume, as well as year-over-year percent changes:
Rank |
State |
Abbr. |
Year-over-Year Percent Change |
IT Job Postings – April 2010 |
|
1 |
New York |
NY |
74% |
14,679 |
|
2 |
Washington |
WA |
63% |
6,423 |
|
3 |
North Carolina |
NC |
58% |
4,953 |
|
4 |
Connecticut |
CT |
46% |
3,315 |
|
5 |
California |
CA |
36% |
22,606 |
|
6 |
Pennsylvania |
PA |
29% |
6,318 |
|
7 |
Illinois |
IL |
27% |
7,489 |
|
8 |
Massachusetts |
MA |
22% |
6,482 |
|
9 |
Minnesota |
MN |
21% |
3,270 |
|
10 |
Michigan |
MI |
19% |
2,228 |
|
11 |
Ohio |
OH |
15% |
4,763 |
|
12 |
New Jersey |
NJ |
14% |
9,019 |
|
13 |
Georgia |
GA |
11% |
5,824 |
|
14 |
Texas |
TX |
8% |
10,335 |
|
15 |
Florida |
FL |
7% |
4,673 |
|
16 |
District of Columbia |
DC |
3% |
6,636 |
|
17 |
Maryland |
MD |
-3% |
8,990 |
|
18 |
Colorado |
CO |
-9% |
3,089 |
|
19 |
Arizona |
AZ |
-10% |
2,529 |
|
20 |
Virginia |
VA |
-17% |
13,004 |
|
For additional charts and a 50-state table, visit www.wantedanalytics.com/insight.
About WANTED Technologies Corporation
WANTED is the leading source of real-time employment market information. The company provides insight and intelligence via its family of WANTED Analytics™ Apps found at www.wantedanalytics.com. Clients in the media, HR/staffing and government sectors use WANTED Analytics Apps to prioritize sales opportunities, identify economic trends, and analyze competitive market conditions.
WANTED is also the exclusive data provider for The Conference Board's Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series™, the monthly economic indicator of Hiring Demand in the United States.
WANTED Technologies (TSX-V: WAN) was founded in 1999. The company's headquarters are in Quebec City, Canada, and it maintains a US-based subsidiary with primary offices in New York City. The company began collecting detailed Hiring Demand data in October 2002, and currently maintains a database of more than 500 million unique job listings. To sample WANTED's services, visit www.wantedanalytics.com. For more information about how WANTED helps organizations make better decisions and improve sales results, visit www.wantedtech.com.
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