Does it feel as if a lot more people in your IT shop are walking around with a "manager" title these days? You're not imagining it. Managers now make up 10% of the U.S. IT workforce, up from less than 7% in 2000, and manager jobs outnumber those in categories such as IT support specialist and network or data-communications administrator. It's all part of a tumultuous, continuing realignment of what IT pros do—with more managers and engineers and fewer programmers—that's reflected in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' year-end employment survey. Another big finding: The United States had respectable IT job growth, breaking four years of meager growth or declines. IT unemployment dropped to 2.9% last year, with 3.5 million IT people employed. That's back to the high-water mark of 2001, before companies slashed hundreds of thousands of IT jobs.
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