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Software Developers Expected to See the Highest It Job Growth Come 2020
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There are currently about 4.16 million information technology (IT) professionals working in the United States, and that number is expected to grow by 22 percent through 2020, according to a new CompTIA report. The report provides a picture of how core IT positions break down today and a prediction of how the IT job landscape will look in 2020.
The IT occupation with the highest projected growth rate through 2020 is systems software developer, which will grow by 32 percent from 387,050 positions today to 510,906 positions in 2020. The other positions with the highest projected growth rates include database administrators, application software developers, and network and systems administrators, which are expected to increase 31 percent, 28 percent, and 28 percent, respectively, by 2020.
Meanwhile, the CompTIA report predicts that positions for computer programmers, hardware engineers, and miscellaneous computer occupations will increase just 12 percent, 9 percent, and 6 percent, respectively, by 2020.
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