IT Skills Gap – IT leaders and professionals agree it is real

IT Leaders and IT Professionals Agree the Skills Gap Is Real and Impacts Their Organization

The large majority of IT leaders and IT professionals believe the IT skills gap is real [Fig. 1]. Additionally, 60 percent of IT leaders say the IT skills gap moderately to severely impacts their organization, compared to 45 percent of IT professionals [Fig. 2].

There is a high level of disagreement amongst IT leaders and IT professionals in the underlying reasons for why positions go unfilled.

Seventy percent of IT leaders point to a lack of skills as the biggest issue when seeking quality candidates. However, only 25 percent of IT professionals claim a lack of skills as a reason why they were not offered a job. IT professionals cite a mismatch in experience or education (63 percent) much more heavily than IT leaders (20 percent).

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at IT Leaders and Professionals Agree the IT Skills Gap is Real | Business Wire.