Good news for information technology job seekers: The daily average of advertised job listings across North Carolina surged 6 percent in October to 3,780.
Leading the way is a big demand for systems and engineering support.
Job openings also were higher last month than in October of 2013 and the previous year.
According to the IT Job Trends report from the North Carolina Technology Association, job demand is expected to remain solid through the holidays.
North Carolina’s surge also outstripped a slight increase of job openings nationally – a mere half a percent.
“Labor demand from most sectors increased in October,” the monthly report based on information from talent management firm SkillProof.
Here’s a look at job demand by category with year-ago totals in parenthesis:
IT Job Opening Estimates by Category (average daily job postings), Oct 14 (Oct 13)
- Total IT Job Market 3780 (3320)
- Systems Eng./Support 1020 (860)
- IT Management 750 (740)
- Software Development 710 (530)
- IT Architects/Consultants 440 (460)
- IT Sales and Marketing 220 (170)
- Business/Process Design 220 (150)
- Hardware Engineering 170 (220)
- Systems Administration 140 (60)
- Training/Tech Writing 60 (40)
- Misc.IT Job Categories 50 (90)
Top 15 Needed Skills Job Openings (average daily job postings) Oct 14, (Oct. 13)
- Java 830 (610)
- SQL 760 (550)
- Windows OS 610 (360)
- Oracle DBMS 450 (390)
- Unix 450 (290)
- Business Analysis 430 (470)
- Linux 420 (250)
- JavaScript 420 (110)
- C++/VC++ 400 (420)
- Large system technologies 400 (400)
- Web Services 380 (250)
- Offshore team coordination 330 (240)
- Perl 280 (320)
- ITIL 280 (200)
- XML 260 (230)
