Monthly IT and Technology Jobs Report – January 2021

IT and Technology Jobs Report Jan 2021 Unemployment Rate for IT and Tech Jobs* Jan 2021: 3.0% Dec 2020: 3.0% Jan 2020 (last year): 2.4% Total IT and Tech Jobs* Jan 2021: 5,692,000 Dec 2020: 5,614,000 Jan 2020 (last year): 5,632,000 US Economy Jobs Added Jan 2021: 49,000 Dec 2020: (140,000) Jan 2020 (last year): 315,000 US Unemployment Rate Jan 2021: 6.3% Dec 2020: 6.7% Jan 2020 (last year): 4.0% Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics " 69% of small business expect increased revenues in the year ahead" Source: Vistage SMB CEO Survey  

By |February 11th, 2021|Houston IT Market, infographics, IT Jobs Report|0 Comments
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Monthly IT and Technology Jobs Report – December 2020

IT and Technology Jobs Report Dec 2020 Unemployment Rate for IT and Tech Jobs* Dec 2020: 3.0% Nov 2020: 2.4% Dec 2019 (last year): 2.3% Total IT and Tech Jobs* Dec 2020: 5,614,000 Nov 2020: 5,223,000 Dec 2019 (last year): 5,262,000 US Economy Jobs Added Dec 2020: (140,000) Nov 2020: 245,000 Dec 2019 (last year): 184,000 US Unemployment Rate Dec 2020: 6.7% Nov 2020: 6.7% Dec 2019 (last year): 3.4% Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics "67% of small businesses report plans to increase their workforce in the year ahead" Source: Vistage SMB CEO Survey

By |January 12th, 2021|Houston IT Market, infographics, IT Jobs Report|0 Comments
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Houston IT Jobs Since COVID Started

Below is a graph we just updated showing the IT jobs posted in Houston since COVID started. The top line is the "normal" amount of weekly posted jobs based on the last few years. The bottom line is the actual number of posted jobs. The short version of this is we typically see about 1400 – 1500 IT and software jobs posted every week. This includes jobs posted by companies, recruiters and consulting firms. Since COVID started, that number has gone down. The worst was in late April when there were less than 400 jobs posted a week. For [...]

By |October 22nd, 2020|Houston IT Market|0 Comments
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Monthly IT and Technology Jobs Report – July 2020

IT and Technology Jobs Report July 2020 Unemployment Rate for IT and Tech Jobs* July 2020: 4.4% June 2020: 4.3% July 2019 (last year): 1.3% Total IT and Tech Jobs* July 2020: 5,856,000 June 2020: 5,990,000 July 2019 (last year): 5,578,000 US Economy Jobs Added July 2020:  1,763,000 June 2020: 4,800,000 July 2019 (last year): 194,000 US Unemployment Rate July 2020: 10.2% June 2020: 11.1% July 2019 (last year): 4.0% Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics "Small businesses were twice as likely to report expectations for revenue increases rather than declines over the next 12 months" Source: Vistage SMB CEO Survey [...]

By |August 17th, 2020|Houston IT Market|0 Comments
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Deep Dive into June Recovery Job Losses/Gains

Since the COVID Event started, The US has had over 46M unemployment claims and lost 12.9 million jobs. The good news is that in the last two months over 7.3M people have returned to work. The bad news is we have 12.9M more to go. In June we had 5.8M Unemployment claims and added 4.8M jobs back. Regardless, lets exam where some of these job gains and losses are occurring. Below are the industry categories that have seen the largest job gains since February: Industry Category Jobs Gains Since February General merchandise stores, including warehouse clubs and supercenters 208,000 Building [...]

By |July 13th, 2020|Houston IT Market, IT career planning|0 Comments
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