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IT Services Among 'Most Robust' Areas of Technology Employment for Managed Services and SaaS

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October 18, 2010

IT Services Among 'Most Robust' Areas of Technology Employment for Managed Services and SaaS

By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor


Industry observer Don Sears writesthat U.S. government data on technology jobs shows IT services, specifically “those jobs that fall under the category management and technology services,” are bucking the generally gloomy economic conditions.


They are, in fact, the most robust area of technology employment over the last four months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Labor, has released data showing roughly 28,600 technology jobs were gained between June and September. Try to find that in any other industry these days.

Nearly 70 percent of those jobs (19,500) were in IT services.

Driving the demand is “a combination of the reluctance to hire significant numbers of full-time employees and an emphasis of renting, leasing or contracting technology work for very specific needs,” Sears writes, citing to a recent statement from technology job analysts Foote Partners.

“Beyond the fact that it’s more expensive to hire full timers, it can take months to find the right person even though the number of unemployed workers is so large,” said David Foote (News - Alert), chief research officer of Foote Partners. “And that works against all the pressure on IT leaders right now to be more agile, react faster and execute more quickly. This is stimulating interest in managed services, cloud computing, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, contractors and consultants. It is also contributing to all this volatility in pay and demand for skills and people.”

Other areas of IT are seeing smaller increases in hiring, include communications equipment and computer and peripheral equipment. Taken together those have seen gains of almost 6,000 jobs since March, Foote Partner’s says, adding that the other two categories, data processing and hosting and computer systems design, experienced losses in September.

“[I]t is important to point out that businesses are looking to the IT services industry to help them get their work done and this has created some healthy jobs growth in the sector,” said Foote.

Computer systems design didn’t do too badly, adding 9,800 jobs in July and August, but losing roughly 900 jobs in September. Data processing and hosting suffered the worst losses in five of the last seven months with a reduction of 6,000 jobs.


David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Juliana Kenny







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