IT Job Market Improves with 13,500 jobs added in April

IT job market grew by 23,500 jobs YTD - BLS adjusts up the number of IT Pros hired in February and March by 12,100

Janco reports that YTD, the IT job market grew by 23,500 jobs in the first four months of 2023.  That is in contrast with 53.8K jobs that were created in the same period of 2022.  The IT Job market has recovered from the layoffs by the big tech companies including Accenture (39,000), Microsoft (2,700), Meta (11,000), and Alphabet (12,000) which resulted in over 158,000 tech workers and IT Pros being terminated. The tech centers of San Francisco and Seattle got the headlines, but these reductions in the number of IT Pros employed occurred nationwide.

Janco has revised its forecast for the IT Job market upwards from 60K-70K to 80K-90K for calendar year 2023.