From Informationweek, February 10, 2009...
Are IT jobs defying gravity as overall U.S. employment figures continue to tank? Latest monthly employment figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and a recent IT pay trends study by research firm Foote Partners sheds some insight into what IT skills remain hot in an ice-cold jobs climate.
According to the BLS, the U.S. added 11,000 management and technical consulting services jobs in January. That follows 9,000 management and consulting services jobs that also were added in October and November. In between, December showed a slight dip in those jobs. Still the figures are pretty promising for tech pros, considering that close to 600,000 nonfarm jobs were lost in the U.S. in January alone, according to the BLS.
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