According to TechServe Alliance, an association of IT and engineering staffing and solutions firms, technology hiring grew by 3,200 jobs in November, 3,100 jobs in October and 6,100 jobs in September – a pace well off the gains posted earlier this year. "We are noticing a clear deceleration in the rate of growth," said Mark Roberts, the Alliance’s CEO. However, the group did note 28 months of consecutive job growth in IT. The industry now employs 4.5 million people, up 180,200 jobs this year, it said. Meanwhile Janco Associates, which generally takes a conservative view of tech hiring, has called the IT job market “anemic.” The firm’s study looks at a smaller data set, and found only 400 IT jobs added in November, and 4,300 added over the past three months. Based on interviews with 104 CIOs over the past two weeks, Janco says that tech executives and their companies have grown more cautious. It attributes that to lingering uncertainty about the economy and another round of government sequestration coming in January. Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis notes that states that have high numbers of IT workers – such as California, Washington and Virginia -- also have big defense installations likely to be affected.
Conflicting Reports on IT Job Market’s Health
Two tech groups are reporting a slowing job market for technology professionals, but a third survey – from Robert Half Technology -- reports the opposite. According to TechServe Alliance, an association of IT and engineering staffing and solutions firms, technology hiring grew by 3,200 jobs in November, 3,100 jobs in October and 6,100 jobs in September – a pace well off the gains posted earlier this year. "We are noticing a clear deceleration in the rate of growth," said Mark Roberts, the Alliance’s CEO. However, the group did note 28 months of consecutive job growth in IT. The industry now employs 4.5 million people, up 180,200 jobs this year, it said. Meanwhile Janco Associates, which generally takes a conservative view of tech hiring, has called the IT job market “anemic.” The firm’s study looks at a smaller data set, and found only 400 IT jobs added in November, and 4,300 added over the past three months. Based on interviews with 104 CIOs over the past two weeks, Janco says that tech executives and their companies have grown more cautious. It attributes that to lingering uncertainty about the economy and another round of government sequestration coming in January. Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis notes that states that have high numbers of IT workers – such as California, Washington and Virginia -- also have big defense installations likely to be affected.
According to TechServe Alliance, an association of IT and engineering staffing and solutions firms, technology hiring grew by 3,200 jobs in November, 3,100 jobs in October and 6,100 jobs in September – a pace well off the gains posted earlier this year. "We are noticing a clear deceleration in the rate of growth," said Mark Roberts, the Alliance’s CEO. However, the group did note 28 months of consecutive job growth in IT. The industry now employs 4.5 million people, up 180,200 jobs this year, it said. Meanwhile Janco Associates, which generally takes a conservative view of tech hiring, has called the IT job market “anemic.” The firm’s study looks at a smaller data set, and found only 400 IT jobs added in November, and 4,300 added over the past three months. Based on interviews with 104 CIOs over the past two weeks, Janco says that tech executives and their companies have grown more cautious. It attributes that to lingering uncertainty about the economy and another round of government sequestration coming in January. Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis notes that states that have high numbers of IT workers – such as California, Washington and Virginia -- also have big defense installations likely to be affected.
