The demand
for e-skills keeps growing at a tremendous pace. In 2020 the European labour
market is projected to grow by more than 670,000 new jobs, but it could absorb
another 756,000 ICT practitioners if only sufficient supply were in sight.
These are
the key messages of a recent working paper by empirica which published research
results showing that demand for e-skills keeps growing at a tremendous pace.
The trend
in the number of core ICT jobs has been steady for more than a decade, with
growth rates averaging at 3% p.a., and the average annual growth in ICT
management and analysis jobs even reaching 10% in the last four years. At the same time demand for medium level
skilled jobs is declining. As a net effect, Europe has added a significant
number of new jobs in ICT year after year.
Despite the
crisis, vacancy rates in ICT remain high and there is a need to continuously
increase the quality and the relevance of e-skills. As graduate figures
stagnate, supply from universities does not seem to keep pace.
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Source:
eskills-lead.eu
