86,000 vacancies for IT specialists
The shortage of IT specialists has decreased under the impact of the Corona crisis, but remains at a high level. At the end of 2020, there were 86,000 vacancies for IT experts across all sectors. This is the second highest value ever recorded since the first survey in 2011. Compared to the previous year, the number of vacancies fell by 31 percent, when a historic high of 124,000 unfilled jobs was recorded.
This is the result of the current study on the job market for IT specialists by the digital association Bitkom. The study is based on a representative survey of more than 850 managing directors and human resources managers in companies from all sectors. According to the survey, seven out of ten (70 percent) currently report a shortage of IT specialists. A year ago, the figure was only slightly higher at 83 percent. Six out of ten companies (60 percent) expect the shortage of IT specialists to worsen in the future.
The search for staff is taking more and more time. On average, it takes six months to fill an open IT position, compared to five months two years ago. Almost half of companies (47 percent) report that IT jobs are filled more slowly than other positions. "Even during the Corona crisis, Germany is suffering from a shortage of IT specialists. The crisis has highlighted deficits in digitization in all sectors and triggered a digitization push that will soon cause demand for IT specialists to rise again," says Bitkom President Achim Berg.
"It is during the crisis that we will decide which companies can successfully position myanmar gambling data themselves for the digital future. Now is the time to invest in digital business models, and this requires digital know-how." In order to address the shortage of skilled workers, Bitkom is calling for better training and further education, the empowerment of women in IT and the promotion of qualified immigration.
Software specialists are by far the most sought-after in the economy. Every second company (52 percent) with vacant IT jobs is looking for software developers or software architects. This is followed by IT application managers or IT administrators, who are sought by every third of these companies (35 percent). 8 percent are looking for data scientists or big data experts, 6 percent IT project managers or IT project coordinators. 5 percent of companies with vacant IT positions want to hire IT security experts, 3 percent IT service consultants and 2 percent engineers for Industry 4.0 or robotics.
Reliability and the ability to work in a team are considered “must haves”, empathy and intercultural competence are considered “nice-to-haves”
In addition to professional suitability, soft skills are also crucial in the recruitment process for IT specialists. A "must-have" in terms of skills and personality traits for almost all companies are reliability (97 percent), the ability to work in a team (95 percent) and analytical thinking (88 percent). Communication also plays a major role: almost nine out of ten companies (87 percent) see knowledge of German as a must, eight out of ten (82 percent) general communication skills. At the other end are empathy (21 percent) and intercultural competence (26 percent), which are rarely seen as a "must-have", i.e. as an absolute requirement. However, many companies like to see these qualities in applicants: two out of three (66 percent) want empathy in new employees, six out of ten (59 percent) intercultural competence.
Programmers and IT administrators are most sought after
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