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Between the fourth quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of 2023, 8.5% of online job advertisements in the EU were dedicated to information and communication technology (ICT) specialists, according to new experimental statistics published today based on the job advertisements retrieved from Internet job portals.
Slovakia (16.5%), Cyprus (14.8%), Luxembourg (14.7%), Austria (14.4%), Portugal (13.7%), and Bulgaria (13.6%) had the highest percentages of online job advertisements seeking ICT specialists in the same period. In contrast, the lowest percentages were observed in Slovenia (3.7%), Finland (4.1%), Croatia (4.3%), Denmark (5.7%) and Romania (6.1%).
Source dataset: isoc_sk_oja1
Software and applications developers and analysts are the most in-demand ICT specialists in the EU
Out of all the online job advertisements for ICT specialists in the EU, published during the last quarter of 2022 and the first three quarters of 2023, 59.1% were for software and applications developers and analysts, followed by ICT operations and user support technicians (10.6%) and database and network professionals (9.8%).
Source dataset: isoc_sk_oja2
The Netherlands (71.4%), Poland (69.9%) and Austria (65.7%) recorded the highest percentages of online job advertisements for software and applications developers and analysts among all job ads for ICT specialists published on the internet. At the other end of the scale, Croatia (36.4%), Slovakia (36.7%), and Malta (42.9%) registered the lowest demand for software and applications developers and analysts among all ICT specialists sought online.
More than 20% of online ICT job advertisements in Portugal (27.0%), Slovakia (23.5%), and Malta (20.5%) were for ICT operations and user support technicians. Conversely, Poland (4.1%) recorded the lowest percentages, with Croatia, Hungary, and Lithuania following closely behind at 6.3% each and Slovenia at 6.4%.
The percentages of online job advertisements for database and network professionals among all online demand for ICT specialists varied from 18.5% in Greece, 15.7% in Latvia and 14.2% in Finland to 4.9% in Slovenia, 6.3% in Spain, and 6.6% in Sweden.
These experimental statistics on labor market demand for ICT specialists in online job advertisements are produced based on millions of online job advertisements (OJAs) web scraped from hundreds of job portals on the internet.
Job hunting is now more difficult than expected for most job seekers amid economic uncertainty, according to Aerotek’s fall 2023 job-seeker survey. Of those surveyed, more than 70% of job seekers said they felt they needed to exert more than an average amount of effort to find a job, and 67.7% felt their current job search was more difficult than their last one.
Based on their experience over the last three months, 53.6% of job seekers said they thought employers had slowed down the hiring process. Just 13.5% thought the hiring process was faster, while 32.9% thought it was what they expected.
Despite the difficulty in changing jobs, pay is still the most important motivator among job seekers, cited by 30%. In addition, more than 74% of job seekers said their financial situation was the same or worse compared to this time in 2022. Aerotek noted the number was down slightly from its summer job-seeker survey when 77.3% of job seekers reported the same or worse financial situation.
Meanwhile, more than 55% of respondents said the economy and job market was the most significant barrier or challenge they were facing in their job search.
Aerotek surveyed more than 1,500 job seekers across diverse industries for the report.