Help wanted: More than 23,000 high-tech jobs open across NC

RALEIGH – Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, high-tech talent remands in demand across North Carolina with more than 23,000 open jobs according to the NC Technology Association.

As expected, openings fell sharply from March when IT and other businesses posted some 30,000 jobs.

But demand remains robust. According to a survey of NC tech executives more than 40 percent of companies continue to hire, the business advocacy group reported as of May 15.

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“North Carolina IT job openings in April were down sharply from March, and were also down a similar percentage compared to April of last year,” said Brooks Raiford, CEO of NC TECH, a business advocacy group. “This mirrors the decline nationally, and is driven by the business impact of COVID-19 that began to hit in earnest in the second half of March.”

[NC TECH is hosting a virtual job fair on Wednesday at which hundreds of positions will be available.]

NC TECH graphic

Year-over-year, demand fell by 25%.

A mix of companies are the biggest IT job hirers:

Wells Fargo
Oracle
IBM
Spectrum
Lowe’s
Deloitte
HCL Technologies
Bank of America
Thoughtwave Software and Solutions
Truist

Nearly 900,000 North Carolinians have applied for unemployment benefits, and more than 36 million have done so across the country as the pandemic has ravaged the economy through illness and stay-at-home orders.

Job demand in North Carolina spiked in January, February and March above 30,000 from some 27,000 in December before the toll of COVID-19 really beagn to hit.

Read the full report online.

NC TECH partners with Clarkston Consulting and Momentum to produce the report.