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| Dice job postings in Atlanta are up 18% |
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The Atlanta technology job market is hitting its stride with job growth increasing at levels not seen since before the dot-com bust in 2001. Now the city might just be getting back to the days when its scorching job market and bright nightlife landed the southern capital the moniker “Hotlanta.”
And that is good news on the IT hiring front for the city’s burgeoning tech industry.
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“Atlanta is one of those areas that is just ripe for an explosion in IT hiring,” said Scot Melland, CEO of Dice, the leading technology career site. “There has already been an increased demand for IT employment. Many of the hiring companies and recruiting agencies who use Dice observe a tightening labor market, and salaries are starting to trend higher as a result.”
Technology job listings on Dice jumped an impressive 18 percent in the Atlanta area during a recent three-month period, from 2,232 in December to 2,643 in March.
And during that growth cycle, IT jobs have flourished while the hunt for qualified candidates heats up.
“Competition is rising for professionals skilled in the hottest applications and specialties, and multiple offers for IT jobs are increasingly common,” said Katherine Spencer Lee, executive director of Robert Half Technology.
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| “It’s a good time to be shopping your tech skills in the Atlanta job market,” |
| - Scot Melland, Dice CEO |
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Tech salaries are also on the rise, according to several national indicators.
The most sought-after IT skills right now, according to Dice, include Java, SAP and Oracle.
The Dice survey also found that the annual average salary for IT professionals in the Atlanta area was $75,000 in 2005, almost $10,000 more than their colleagues in the Southeast, which includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Nationwide, the average high-tech salary grew 5.1 percent in 2005, a telling leap compared to a year earlier, when it grew at 4.3 percent, according to Moody’s Economy.com.
This year alone should see the creation of 217,000 new tech jobs in the United States, Virendra Singh, a senior economist at Economy.com, said.
Singh also expects the job-growth trend to remain steady through at least 2010, with an additional 126,000 tech jobs created in 2007 and 123,000 more in 2008.
“It’s a good time to be shopping your tech skills in the Atlanta job market,” said Melland.
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