Identifying the Hottest IT Jobs
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IT employment in the U.S. is blossoming. So, what are the hottest IT occupations?
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More than one-quarter of the gain came in an occupation category the government designates computer scientists and analysts, which jumped by 100,000 to 848,000 workers. The job category labeled network and computer systems administrators showed the biggest percentage gain, rocketing by 21 percent to nearly 230,800 jobs.
Here's the breakdown for 2Q2008:
Yearly Occupation Employed Increase Computer/IS Managers 488,000 9.9% Computer Scientists/Systems Analysts 848,500 13.4% Computer Programmers 528,300 -3.6% Computer Software Engineers 969,500 9.9% Computer Support Specialists 385,500 15.9% Database Administrators 98,000 -3.9% Network/Computer Systems Administrators 230,800 21.4% Network Systems/Data Communications Analysts 407,300 9.3%
Most of these jobs can be found in typical IT shops of employers of all sizes. These numbers are based on the government's monthly survey of 60,000 households, and count all workers, including citizens and foreign nationals, whether or not they're working here legally.
Another survey of 160,000 businesses and government agencies covering about 400,000 worksites shows that IT services firms increased computer-related jobs by an estimated 31,000 this past year. We base that approximation on a 2006 government study that estimated 56 percent of employees at so-called computer system design and related services firms hold jobs in the eight occupation categories listed in the chart above. According to preliminary data, 1,414,400 worked for IT services firms in June. Thus, 792,000 of those employees were IT pros or about 20 percent of all IT jobs in the U.S. The remaining workers hold non-IT managerial, sales, marketing and support positions.
Comments (2)
Where did the BA (Business Analyst) role fit within this analysis?
Posted by Todd Riedl | July 16, 2008 12:58 PM
The government doesn't have an occupation category for business analysts, though management analysts comes close.
Here's how the Bureau of Labor Statistics defines management analysts:
BLS classifies management analyst under the category Business and Financial Operations Occupations. Most IT jobs are categorized as Computer and Mathematical Occupations.
Posted by Eric Chabrow | July 16, 2008 1:18 PM