[IKTinfo] This year will see a higher demand for ICT staff and market growth

Analyst firm Gartner estimates that the number of ICT job vacancies will continue to grow as the supply of skilled workers in the market is increasingly scarce in many countries. The high demand for professionals will make it increasingly difficult for ICT managers to recruit the right staff, which will in turn make it harder for companies to grow. Globally, €4.144 trillion will be spent on ICT this year, up 2.4 per cent on last year, according to Gartner analysts. While inflation will reduce spending on devices by a further 5.1% to €632 billion this year, after a 10.6% drop last year, overall business spending on ICT will remain relatively robust. In fact, despite the economic difficulties, companies are still investing more in digital initiatives, albeit cautiously. Gartner forecasts that spending on software will grow the most, up 9.3% to €790 billion, and ICT services, up 5.5% to €1.2 trillion.

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The economy, manufacturing, education and other sectors have been subject to increased pressures and changes in recent years as a result of the pandemic and the measures taken to contain it, as well as the Russia-Ukraine war, as confirmed by various surveys and analyses. The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector is also exposed to similar changes, but at the same time it is able to monitor, assess and control changes not only in its own sector but also in all other sectors, which has been a valuable help to all of them in recent years.
ICT helps companies and institutions in all industries to organise their work, adapt their operations, streamline their operations, process data, evaluate results, predict trends and discover new opportunities. And they enable schools and universities to implement hybrid forms of teaching and meaningful digitisation of learning processes.
All of this is why we have decided to regularly publish summaries of information, evaluations, analyses and studies from research and analysis companies that can help everyone to better monitor, learn about and understand changes and trends, and to adapt more successfully to the new era of ICT.
Produced by the Chair of Information and Communication Technologies in cooperation with Esad Jakupović.