Argentina registered the highest growth in new developers in 2022 in South America, according to a report from a global platform whose result is aligned with official data that records 34 continuous months of increase and with those of companies that verified an increase in employment in the industry greater than that of all private activity.
A report of the GitHub platformwhich enjoys the recognition of specialists in the sector, stated that Argentina was the country of South America that he had biggest increase (41%) in the number of new programmers in 2022, compared to the previous year.
Although this platform measures users of its services and does not differentiate between developers who work for companies that are taxed in Argentina or for foreign companiesthe increase is a constant in different evaluations of the employment evolution in this activity.
Programmers: how many new positions were created
According to the chamber of software and computer services companies (Cessi), in the last two years in Argentina this industry alone created 35,000 new Job positionswhich means an increase of 21.5%, above the increase in total employment of the private sector which was 13.1% in the same period analyzed.
Furthermore, the camera that represents the industry In Argentina it indicated that it still has between 10,000 and 15,000 jobs that could be created if there were trained human resources. The entity collaborated with the national government in the formulation of training programs like Argentina Program and others.
In that sense, he announced that so far this year more than 4,000 people have registered on the portal First Job and that more than 18,000 participated in the training Software as a Future that the entity carries out with companies in the sector.
The variety of courses to get closer to the world of programming in Argentina had significant acceptance among young people and adults, which is corroborated in the report from the Boomerang jobs which marks a growth of the junior profile applications in technology in the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year.
Programmers: what positions the industry demands
That report also revealed that “during the first half of 2023, demand in Technology continued with a greater need for middle management (72% senior/semi-senior), although the notices directed to senior positions lower hierarchy (junior) they increased their participation from 11.7% in 2022 to 26% in 2023).
On the other hand, since Ministry of Economyin the latest report they indicated that last May employment in knowledge-based services (KBS) reached 305,789 jobs and “added 34 months of uninterrupted annual increases.”
They specified that employment in the knowledge economy “was 18.6% above December 2019” in the series without seasonality.
In the breakdown by activity, IT subsector “was the most dynamic within the SBC: in year-on-year terms, it has expanded uninterruptedly since December 2013.
The report added that “due to its growth, added to its weight in the SBC sector (47.5%), it had a contribution of 1.1 pp to the general increase.”
Source: Ambito
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