Tech Jobs Show Surprising Strength

摘要

Amid a shaky overall job market, U.S. companies kept adding information technology workers in the second quarter, lifting IT jobs more than 2% from the first quarter to hit 4.1 million employed, a record high, according to quarterly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Compared with the second quarter a year ago, U.S. IT employment is up 10%. That's the good news. The bad news: The growth in IT jobs may be slowing, considerably. Those bullish employment numbers were something of a surprise. With layoffs looming in the banking sector, a major employer of technology professionals, IT employment looked poised to falter in the second quarter. Some tech companies have warned, as Oracle did earlier this month, that sales may be slower in the coming months, also raising questions of whether tech jobs will keep growing.