11 Reasons Guarded Optimism Prevails on IT Hiring Front
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Dice Findings: Minor Downtick
70% of employers plan to hire more tech professionals in the next six months, down just slightly from 73% at the end of last year. -
Dice Findings: Stable Staffing
One-third said IT workers are leaving their current positions this year, down from 42% that said they experienced turnover late in 2013. -
Dice Findings: Bargaining Room
32% indicated that more tech candidates are rejecting offers compared with six months ago. -
Dice Findings: Money Matters
61% said candidates are asking for more salary, compared with six months ago. -
Dice Findings: Vacancy Sign
59% revealed that some positions are going unfilled based on salary guidelines for the job. -
TEKsystems Findings: Belt Tightening
47% of IT leaders expect their 2014 budgets to increase, down from 62% at the end of last year. -
TEKsystems Findings: Scaled-Down Staffing
31% said there will be increases in full-time IT hiring for the rest of 2014, compared with 47% who indicated this six months ago. -
TEKsystems Findings: Hired Guns
37% expect to increase their temporary hiring for the rest of the year, as opposed to 46% who anticipated this at the end of 2013. -
TEKsystems Findings: Tough Fits
IT leaders said that it's most difficult to find exceptional talent to fill the roles of architects, programmers, app developers, software engineers, security staff, project managers and business analysts. -
TEKsystems Findings: Up to the Task
73% are confident in the tech department's ability to satisfy business demands, up from 66% expressing this confidence six months ago. -
TEKsystems Findings: Difference Makers
Despite their cautious optimism, tech leaders said mobility will have the biggest impact on their organizations in 2014, followed, in order, by security, business intelligence/big data, cloud computing and enterprise resource planning.
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Why Metrics Matter to the Channel Separate surveys from two career and employment companies indicate that IT hiring managers remain cautiously optimistic about staffing expansions. The two surveys, from Dice and TEKsystems, reveal that expectations for tech department budget increases are conservative, but there will likely be less turnover, too. Despite the rising concerns about available funds, tech job candidates are still lobbying to make more money. On the encouraging side, confidence is building among IT managers in terms of their ability to meet business expectations. "IT leaders [are settling] into a pattern where they recognize they will not see the budget increases they expected, yet they remain confident in their ability to satisfy demands," Jason Hayman, research manager for TEKsystems, said in a statement. "This indicates a closer alignment between business and IT in which business initiatives, their impact and priority level are clearly communicated to IT, allowing leaders to use their budget effectively." More than 700 hiring managers took part in the Dice research. An estimated 240 IT leaders took part in the TEKsystems research. Channel Insider looks at key data points on the overall IT employment outlook as well as where the strongest jobs growth is.