The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its biennial employment
forecasts, and this year’s report has some good news for IT workers. The agency
predicts that employment in all computer-related fields will grow 22 percent
through 2020. Some job titles will do even better, for example software
developers (28-32 percent growth), database administrators (31 percent growth),
and network and systems administrators (28 percent growth).


While the forecast looks good, some experts say the U.S. IT job growth
isn’t as high as it needs to be. Victor Janulaitis, CEO of research firm Janco Associates, characterized the IT job
growth as “anemic,” saying, “When you consider the overall demand for systems
and applications in high-growth markets like China and India, the BLS
projections mean the U.S. will be doing a diminishing portion of the development
and implementation work. If that’s the case, the U.S. will no longer be the
leader in IT.”


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He added, “The BLS projections are a bad sign for the U.S. IT graduates from
universities. Those numbers do not cover the net growth necessary to give all of
the graduates jobs.”

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