One-fourth of the IT job hunters currently work for tech vendors; 16% in education; 15% in government; 8% in health care; and 7% in manufacturing. However, many of them want to tap into their industry-expertise to land new jobs: Forty percent say they hope to find new work in the same industries they're in now.
The majority of IT pros looking for new jobs have been at their current employers for several years. Eight percent have been at their current companies more than 10 years; 22% have been with the same employer six to 10 years; and 29% have been with the same company for three to five years. Twenty-seven percent of the restless IT pros have been working at their current employer for one to two years; 14% have been with their employer less than a year.
While lots of tech pros are looking for a job change, many also seem to be feeling less optimistic about their current jobs, according to another new survey released on Wednesday by IT professional services and outsourcing firm Hudson.
Compared to a base score of 100, tech job confidence levels fell 9.4 points in August to 103.1, from a year-long high of 112.5 in July. Still, despite the one-month drop, IT job confidence levels last month were still significantly higher than in August 2005, when it registered only 97.5.
Also, IT workers in August were also just slightly more optimistic than workers overall across the several sectors Hudson surveys. Nationally, workers across all industries rated their job confidence 102.9, according to the Hudson poll of 9,000 workers, including more than 400 IT and telecom professionals.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
