8.5% of online job ads looked for ICT specialists

Between the fourth quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of 2023, 8.5% of online job advertisements in the EU were dedicated to information and communication technology (ICT) specialists, according to new experimental statistics published today based on the job advertisements retrieved from Internet job portals.

Slovakia (16.5%), Cyprus (14.8%), Luxembourg (14.7%), Austria (14.4%), Portugal (13.7%) and Bulgaria (13.6%) had the highest percentages of online job advertisements seeking ICT specialists in the same period. In contrast, the lowest percentages were observed in Slovenia (3.7%), Finland (4.1%), Croatia (4.3%), Denmark (5.7%) and Romania (6.1%).

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Source dataset: isoc_sk_oja1

Software and applications developers and analysts are the most in-demand ICT specialists in the EU

Out of all the online job advertisements for ICT specialists in the EU, published during the last quarter of 2022 and the first three quarters of 2023, 59.1% were for software and applications developers and analysts, followed by ICT operations and user support technicians (10.6%) and database and network professionals (9.8%).

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Source dataset: isoc_sk_oja2

The Netherlands (71.4%), Poland (69.9%) and Austria (65.7%) recorded the highest percentages of online job advertisements for software and applications developers and analysts among all job ads for ICT specialists published on the internet. At the other end of the scale, Croatia (36.4%), Slovakia (36.7%) and Malta (42.9%) registered the lowest demand for software and applications developers and analysts in all ICT specialists sought online.

More than 20% of online ICT job advertisements in Portugal (27.0%), Slovakia (23.5%) and Malta (20.5%) were for the ICT operations and user support technicians. Conversely, Poland (4.1%) recorded the lowest percentages, with Croatia, Hungary and Lithuania following closely behind at 6.3% each and Slovenia at 6.4%.

The percentages of online job advertisements for database and network professionals among all online demand for ICT specialists varied from 18.5% in Greece, 15.7% in Latvia and 14.2% in Finland to 4.9% in Slovenia, 6.3% in Spain and 6.6% in Sweden.

These experimental statistics on labour market demand for ICT specialists in online job advertisements are produced based on millions of online job advertisements (OJAs) web scraped from hundreds of job portals on the internet.