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IT Joblessness Declines
IT unemployment through November stood at 5.65%, down one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month's annualized rate.
January 5, 2004
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IT unemployment through November stood at 5.65%, down one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month's annualized rate.
Analysis of government employment data reveals that computer programmers are the IT job category with the highest unemployment rate, at 6.54%, down from 6.82% in October. The IT category with the lowest unemployment was computer scientists and systems analysts, which had a jobless rate of 5.14% in November. That's down from 5.59% in October. The unemployment rate for other IT job categories in November:
Software engineers: 5.3%
Computer and information-systems managers: 5.34%
Network and computer-systems administrators: 5.43%
Computer-support specialists: 5.62%
Network-systems and data-communications analysts: 6.24%
Database administrators: 6.46%
According to the analysis, the IT workforce topped 3.5 million in November, up slightly from October. The category with the largest workforce through November was software engineers, at 797,445. The smallest IT category was database administrators, with 75,610 workers.
Unlike the overall employment numbers, which are seasonally adjusted and fell to 5.9% in November from 6% in October, the IT data is unadjusted.The results reflect InformationWeek's analysis of data collected monthly in a household survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our analysis is based on an aggregate of the yearly employment data to that point. Thus, November's results aggregate data collected from January through November. Beginning in 2003, the government designated new job categories, so direct and accurate comparisons with previous years are impossible.
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