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Research reveals that demand for high-tech workers varies across the country, companies are often seeking less-experienced workers and the types of positions available vary among full-time permanent jobs, contract work and part-time positions.
"The recession is spurring many companies to cut back on their full-time workforces," wrote Tom Silver, Dice senior vice president and chief marketing officer, in a statement. "On Dice, contractor positions now constitute 44% of the job market, compared to 40% 12 months ago."
But that doesn't mean there aren't areas in which high-tech work can be found.
For instance, Beyond.com this week released its first quarter report that showed the IT industry fell among the top two areas for online job postings, behind healthcare and medical. More than 11% of all online job postings in the 15,000 communities Beyond.com analyzes in the first quarter were for IT industry positions. The firm found that the majority (81.58%) of online job postings were for permanent full-time jobs and for candidates with less than one year of experience (59.47%). And according to Dice data as of May 1, 49,016 high-tech job postings could be found online, of which about 30,000 are full-time positions, more than 20,000 are for contract work and just over 1,000 are for part-time jobs.
Dice broke down the number of jobs posted by city and metro area, and the top 10 results might be obvious to some. For instance, major metropolitan areas such as Washington D.C./Baltimore and New York/New Jersey listed 6,817 and 5,341 job postings as of May of this year, respectively. Other cities with a thousand-plus open high-tech positions, according to Dice include: Austin, Texas, with 1,372; Boston with 1,902; Chicago with 2,056; Dallas with 1,451; Los Angeles with 2,022; Philadelphia with 1,557; Seattle with 1,195; and Silicon Valley with 2,534.
Beyond.com found that the "District of Columbia experienced significant growth over the previous quarter and over the past 12 months. In addition, it was the No. 1 state for online job postings per capita and was ranked as the top state within 15 industries, including healthcare and medical, sales and sales management and IT."
As for salaries, such cities are among the higher paying locations for IT professionals. For instance, an IT manager would earn on average more than $88,000 in New York, according to PayScale, but the same position in Columbus, Ohio, pays about $10,000 less. And Bluewolf salary research shows that New York City metro salaries are between 20% and 50% higher than the national average, and additionally, salary ranges in the Northeast and West Coast are approximately 25% higher than the national average – "making them good places for IT professionals," according to Michael Kervin, principal and co-founder of Bluewolf.
The pay range could be based more on cost of living than IT skill sets, one IT industry watcher points out.
"We survey pay in 82 cities for 130 IT jobs. If you were to rank cities by average salary for, say, senior voice engineers, historically the same cities tend to appear in the very highest [for example, San Jose, San Francisco and New York City] and very lowest [for instance, Oklahoma City and Spartanburg, N.C.] positions due mainly to cost of living," says David Foote, co-founder, CEO and chief research officer at Foote Partners.
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Anamzing, yet no surpriseBy Anonymous on May 13, 2009, 11:19 amBeen tracking this for about a year now myself. DC is indeed the undisputed hotspot right now nationally. My guess is this will continue for 4-8 years at least... :-)
I would need 2.5 or 3 times my current salary to keep my standarBy Anonymous on November 19, 2009, 4:00 pmI'll stay right where I am, thank you very much.
$88,000 goes a LONG WAY in New York. LMFAOBy Anonymous on November 19, 2009, 3:56 pm$88,000 goes a LONG WAY in New York.
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Jobs in Silicon Valley - notBy Anonymous on August 4, 2009, 1:32 pmThousands of jobs in Silicon Valley? Give me a break! There are at least 5 recruiting agencies fighting for each job. Many jobs are posted for over a month and a half which also adds to the numbers but when you apply, sorry, that job no longer available. Yes, Dice is a bad joke and so are few others scraping (inflating the numbers) from each other.
Federal spending is driving the DC marketBy Anonymous on July 13, 2009, 6:15 pmOf course DC is going to have a robust IT job market, since the Federal government is spending freshly minted taxpayer dollars at a feverish pace while corporate America sits back to wait for the "recovery".
COLABy Anonymous on May 18, 2009, 1:05 amThese jobs seem to be in high COLA areas. And given the poor job security in IT work it would be foolish to move your family across country only to be training your H1B replacement in 6 months.
CCIE jobsBy Anonymous on May 17, 2009, 7:00 amI am a CCIE and I have been using Monster,com to find a job in USA for like 6 months, I live in UK btw, but companies dont seem to be willing to sponsor a VISA, I think I will move to Australia or Canada if this keeps going this way... It is really a shame, because I think I am one of those guys very motivated and willing to work hard...
What's the barrier for entry?By Anonymous on May 14, 2009, 11:00 amYes, there are more IT jobs opening. This is all well and good for IT pros in their early 30s who have 5 or more years of experience under their belts, but recent grads with maybe a year of experience are almost universally turned down because they don't fit the open positions to a T. This is especially noticeable on job listings where the company writes up a laundry list of "preferred" certifications and programs prospective applicants "should" have "a working knowledge of", including top-dollar diagnostic and monitoring tools that you'd have no way of using outside an enterprise deployment. These aren't even for high-level positions; on the contrary, they're listed as "entry level". How can we be expected to compete when companies with unrealistic definitions of "entry level" have their pick of unemployed IT pros to choose from?
Get The US Geography RightiBy Anonymous on May 14, 2009, 10:09 amFYI, Denise Dubie, In your article, you state, Beyond.com found that the "District of Columbia experienced significant growth over the previous quarter and over the past 12 months. In addition, it was the No. 1 state for online job postings per capita and was ranked as the top state within 15 industries, including healthcare and medical, sales and sales management and IT." The District of Columbia is not a state, it is a district...........so much for geography...........
DICEBy Anonymous on May 13, 2009, 5:46 pmDICE is a joke, those jobs are reserved for H1B workers.
Really! By Anonymous on May 15, 2009, 2:51 pmcan you show me in how many listings H1Bs can even apply to? 90% of all listings ask for US citizens or Greencard holders. Either you are blind or just a good for nothing habitual cribber.
PointlessBy Anonymous on May 13, 2009, 5:00 pmThis tells me nothing. First, the salaries shown are for different jobs in each different area, and you do nothing to account for COLA in these different areas and you do nothing to account for security of job offerings...which areas are more likely to continue to have IT job openings at livable wages and which are not! ed
PointlessBy Anonymous on May 13, 2009, 5:00 pmThis tells me nothing. First, the salaries shown are for different jobs in each different area, and you do nothing to account for COLA in these different areas and you do nothing to account for security of job offerings...which areas are more likely to continue to have IT job openings at livable wages and which are not! ed
IT Jobs in 10 American CitiesBy Anonymous on May 13, 2009, 12:22 pmDenise, Great job. But how do the salaries that appear here compare against local cost of living? DC may be highest salary, but much of that advantage might be eaten up by a high cost of living. And I always thought the greater Boston was expensive.
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