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RALEIGH, N.C. — Demand for IT workers in North Carolina continued to climb in October, with unfilled vacancies rising 14 percent from September’s count, repeating the previous monthly gain.
Tech employers are optimistic, and the second straight month of double-digit growth suggests "jobs may come back sooner than expected," according to the report prepared by the (NCTA), the hiring firm and .
NCTA said there were 1,440 job openings across all fields in October, compared with 1,260 in September. In August, there had been 1,130. Nationally, the IT job market grew 5.8 percent, NCTA reported.
The Charlotte metro area had an increase in vacancies of 15.4 percent, and the Triangle market was up 12 percent, the report said. Despite the good news, all job categories remained below where they were a year ago, however.
Job opening estimates by category, with Oct. 2008 openings in parenthesis:
- Systems engineers/support: 430 (920)
- Software development: 290 (390)
- IT architects/consultants: 270 (520)
- IT management: 160 (410)
- Systems administration: 70 (200)
- IT sales and marketing: 80 (250)
- Business/process design: 30 (70)
- Hardware engineering: 30 (90)
- Training/tech writing: 20 (60)
- Misc. categories: 60 (60)
The top skills in demand, with 2008 figures in parentheses:
- SQL: 260 (580)
- Oracle DBMS: 200 (440)
- Java: 180 (410)
- Windows OS: 230m (500)
- Unix: 140 (490)
- Linux: 120 (320)
- Business analysis: 120 (250)
- Large system technologies: 100 (200)
- Microsoft SQL server: 110 (270)
- C++/VC++: 110 (210)
- HTML: 80 (120)
- XML: 110 (280)
- Perl: 70 (160)
- C#: 80 (160)
- Windows NT/2000/2003 Server: 80 (90)
