Golden years over? IT professionals view job market noticeably more skeptically

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Golden years over? IT professionals view job market noticeably more skeptically.

You work in IT or are thinking about switching? A new survey shows: The mood among IT professionals is shifting noticeably. Their own job prospects are being assessed far more skeptically than just recently – heise online reports, citing a current survey.

For a long time, the IT industry in this country was considered crisis-proof and practically self-running. Now this taken-for-grantedness appears to be giving way to a noticeably more cautious assessment among many professionals.

What the survey reveals

"IT professionals are increasingly pessimistic about their job prospects, as a survey shows," heise online writes. This is a remarkable shift in mood in a sector in which qualified minds were in demand like hardly anywhere else for years.

The title of the article itself puts the question pointedly: Are the golden years of the IT career over? The survey data at least suggest that many workers in the industry no longer feel as secure as before.

More skepticism, higher salary expectations

Particularly striking: Despite growing skepticism, IT professionals' salary expectations have risen according to the report. Those who do still find a position want to be paid noticeably more for it than in the past. This combination fits the picture of a market that is reorganizing itself – without collapsing, but also without its old self-runner character.

In other words: Those who do still get hired should please be paid more for it. And those who still want to switch are apparently less confident about doing so than before.

What's behind the shift in mood?

The survey does not cite individual reasons for the changed perception according to heise online. What remains is an observation that apparently resonates in many minds in the industry: The IT sector has lost some of its carefree attitude – at least in the self-assessment of those who work there or want to work there.