Technology sector companies in the aggregate added workers in September while employers throughout the economy reduced tech occupation staffing, according to analysis from CompTIA., a nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce.
Within the tech sector, employers increased employment by 12,643 positions, according to CompTIA’s analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Report data. Employment growth was led by new hiring in IT and custom software services and systems design (up 10,400 jobs) and cloud infrastructure, data processing and hosting (up 5,800 jobs).
Tech occupations throughout the economy declined by 189,000 positions, the report found. The unemployment rate for tech occupations rose slightly to Please log in to see the rest of this story.
