Demand for information-technology workers remained strong in March, as companies continued to expand stopgap digital measures deployed during the coronavirus pandemic into permanent workplace features.
U.S. employers added 50,000 new enterprise-technology workers last month, marking the fourth month of consecutive gains in the field, according to federal jobs data analyzed by IT trade group CompTIA. The gains came as companies continued to invest in technology such as cloud-based business processes, which can support remote work, CompTIA said.
IT employment gains in March were led by software and application developers, IT support specialists and systems engineers and architects, and the unemployment rate for tech workers dropped to 1.9%, its lowest level since August 2019, CompTIA said. Encouraged by the pace of Covid-19 vaccinations, U.S. companies in March posted their biggest jobs gain since August, the Labor Department said Friday. Overall, the economyThe Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team.“There’s no doubt that the pandemic highlighted the importance of having a strong, agile team that can shift in moments of uncertainty,” said Corrado Azzarita, global chief information officer atMr.
Over the past year, IT jobs have proven more resilient than jobs in the broader labor market, in large part because companies sought skilled workers to oversee urgent digital efforts needed to support remote workers and keep operations running amid Covid-19 restrictions, said Matthew Charlet, a research vice president at IT research and consulting firm“Chief information officers were amazed at how many processes were half digital and half paper,” Mr.
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