Westchester’s IT job market shows drop in Q4
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The credit crunch and the weakening of the overall job market caused demand for information technology workers in Westchester County to drop in the fourth quarter of last year, according to researchers at Pace University.
The researchers said their PSII job index, which tracks job openings, dropped to 99 from a third-quarter reading of 123.
But the researchers said openings for computer support specialists increased 16 percent, reversing a sharp decline in the third quarter. Openings for network administrators increased 2 percent and openings in a category called “other specialists� rose 3 percent.
The report called the IT job market “fairly stable� and said researchers are optimistic about future growth.
“Given that the state of the labor market in the New York area is better than the employment arena as a whole, and that the chance of a recession is minimal, we expect the labor market for IT specialists to grow in 2008,� the report said.
Two technology skills are in particularly strong demand in the New York metro area. One is virtualization, a technology that lets a number of operating systems run on one computer. Demand for workers with that skill grew 70 percent last year and 183 percent since November 2005, the researchers said.
Specialists with skills in a programming technique that makes Internet Web pages more interactive grew by 50 percent last year, the report said.
Pace has campuses in Pleasantville, White Plains and Manhattan.
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