DPP Blog - IT Industry

Reversing Slide, IT Employment Turns Positive in August

Alexandria, VA, September 9, 2020 – In August, IT employment increased by 0.40% to 5,133,600 jobs, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions Industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment has declined by 4.12% since August 2019 shedding 220,400 IT workers. Engineering employment grew by 0.56% […]

IT Employment Declines Markedly in May, Though Continues to Show More Resilience than Overall Job Market

Alexandria, VA, June 10, 2020 – In May, IT employment declined markedly by 1.63% to 5,211,500 jobs, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment dropped by 2.52% since May 2019 shedding 134,700 IT workers. Engineering employment increased by 0.21 […]

IT Jobs Kick Off New Year Ticking Down

Alexandria, VA, February 26, 2020 – In January, IT employment ticked down 0.01% to 5,351,300 jobs, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment grew by only 0.08% since January 2019 adding a mere 4,500 IT workers. Engineering employment increased […]

DPP Makes Top 6

Top Staffing Partner Award

IT Employment Tops Milestone 5 Million Mark

Alexandria, VA, November 10, 2015 – The number of IT jobs grew 0.2 percent sequentially last month to 5,003,400, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment has grown by 4.0% since October 2014 adding 194,200 IT workers. The rate […]

Happy SysAdmin Day 2014!

In just a few short days, it will be SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Are you ready? Of course you are! But just in case… Friday, July 25 is the 15th annual day of giving the nod to our system administrators.  Those are the people who keep your network alive, your servers backed up, your computers virus-free. […]

Do Passwords Make Your Heart Bleed?

The verdict is still out on the extent of the damage caused by the Heart bleed bug. The bug has been called “catastrophic”, the “bug that broke the Internet”, and the worst vulnerability in the history of the Internet. Fixing it will be a “herculean task”. While system admins have been hustling to push fixes […]

BYOD / (BYOC + BYOS) = TROUBLE?

There’s little debate that the frequency and proliferation of employees using their own devices for work has and will continue to increase. With the cloud – private, public, and hybrid – as one of the hot growth areas in IT, there were bound to be issues where these two growing trends intersect. The new acronyms […]