24% of the labor demand in Uruguay is linked to the information technologies (IT), according to the latest IT Labor Monitor: Demand for Talent and ICT Industry in Job Search Portals; a study carried out by the IT Observatory of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies (CUTI)based on data collected by the Labor Monitor of Advice.
The report surveyed the calls published on the country’s employment portals between November 2022 and October 2023. Of the total of 67,215 job opportunities published in that period, 12,001 corresponded to purely technological profiles, which means 18% of the total demand. If, in addition, the 4,368 non-technological jobs sought by companies in the IT sector are added, the percentage rises to 24%, with a total of 16,369 opportunities linked to the sector that is constantly growing in the country.
As explained Victoria Cancela, responsible for the CUTI IT Observatory, “it continues to be reaffirmed that a good part of the labor demand is in the technology sector.” In any case, the labor demand linked to IT concentrated 8% fewer searches compared to the previous measurement – corresponding to the period between November 2021 and October 2022 – due to a less dynamism of general labor demand in 2023 than the previous year.
The technology sector, a niche for all types of jobs
“The technology sector is a job niche for technological profiles, but also for non-technological profiles,” Cancela explained in dialogue with Radio Carve. Regarding this, he pointed out that a quarter of the calls recorded in the report were for non-technological profiles, in areas such as business management, marketing and human resources.
“Besides, the labor pool It is double between sectors, because companies that are not technology, with diverse activities, are also a job niche for technological profiles, because all sectors are becoming digital, there is a digitization of the economy In general, and in all sectors, technological profiles are required for the development of companies,” added the head of the CUTI IT Observatory.
Regarding the level of experience, the Labor Monitor verified that more than 13,000 job calls specified a certain level in this sense: of the total, 40% requested a level junior —up to two years of experience—; 23% one level semi senior —three and four years of experience—; and 37%, senior, with five or more years of experience.
“We see what we call a Polarization of the calls between the junior and senior profiles,” considered Cancela. “What this does is demonstrate the importance of specialization, on the one hand; and, in parallel, an opening to collaborators with little experience,” he added. Likewise, by segmenting the information according to type of company, between technological and non-technological, the study showed that IT companies are the most demanding in terms of the level of experience.
Regarding the academic training, a point closely linked to labor demand “because to satisfy this demand, what we need is to have people trained in the country”, as Cancela pointed out, from CUTI they confirmed that there is an opening from the different public and private educational institutions to older people. careers related to the IT sector. “We do notice a very big leap from UTEC in what has to do with postgraduate training, which allows people to continue professionalizing and specializing in issues that the industry requires,” said the head of the IT Observatory.
Source: Ambito
