Despite Corona crisis: More vacancies than unemployed skilled workers in ICT professions
For every unemployed ICT professional, there are four job openings. This is good news for ICT professionals in Switzerland and a ray of hope in the corona crisis that is hitting the job market hard. The umbrella organization ICTswitzerland is now publishing more facts and trends on the ICT economy on its new information platform "Facts and Figures on the Digital Economy from a Single Source".
The umbrella organization ICTswitzerland is taking a close look at the Swiss ICT economy: Since June 15, 2020, all trends and key figures can be accessed and used online on the online platform "Facts and Figures on the Digital Economy from a Single Source". The information platform provides the public with a broad-based database that allows an independent and holistic insight into the ICT economy.
Many vacancies despite Corona crisis
The platform covers the six topics of labor market situation, employment structure, education, training needs, industry and cybersecurity. Users can access in-depth data to classify current developments and analyze Switzerland's strengths and weaknesses in key areas of digitization. Under the topic area "Current labor market situation"For example, it becomes clear that the number of vacancies in the ICT occupational field (16,534) exceeds the number of unemployed professionals (4,305) by almost four times. This fact reflects the acute shortage of skilled workers in the ICT occupational field. At the same time, it can be concluded that the large supply of vacancies in times of crisis such as Corona can also be seen as a positive factor. After all, the dynamic ICT occupational field with its 242,600 employees (growth since 2010: +83,200, or +52%) has also been affected by the crisis in the Swiss labor market: since April 2020, the number of vacancies has fallen by 7.1%, while the number of unemployed has risen by 571. And in the subject area "Education", it can be seen that 9 times more men continue to complete basic ICT training than women (2018: 1990 men, 220 women).
Monthly updated data
Andreas Kaelin, CEO of ICTswitzerland, emphasizes: "In addition to intuitive use, the quality, trustworthiness and completeness of the data are particularly important to us. The data comes from reputable and objective sources. They are checked and updated monthly by our commissioned economist Nils Braun-Dubler from the Institute for Economic Studies Basel (IWSB)."
Source and further information: www.ictswitzerland.ch/facts-and-figures
