WANTED Analytics tracks the number of online job ads on over 1,000 employment websites:

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IT Hiring Demand grew faster than the rest of the economy – national Hiring Demand, all Occupations considered, grew by 4.0% over the same period. Removing the positive effect that IT workers had on the national average, national Hiring Demand grew by only 3.3%. (In other words, IT occupations contributed 0.7% to the overall growth in national Hiring Demand).

The table below details changes in Hiring Demand by occupation. Occupations are defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and their Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System. Five occupations saw increases in Hiring Demand, while three saw drops. Drops were concentrated in "Computer Software Engineers", both "Applications" and "Systems Software".

What's more, IT Hiring Demand is growing faster now than it did during the "boom times" of 2006/2007. The following table and weekly time series chart, where the count of online job ads is taken as a natural log to facilitate trending analysis, clearly shows this:

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The upward trend has affected most US metro areas, although not uniformly. Looking at the 'Top 5' US Metro Areas in terms of job ad volume, IT Hiring Demand over the past 5 months has grown the most in Boston (+8.5%), followed by New York (+7.0%), Washington (+4.9%), Los Angeles (+3.6%) and Chicago (+1.7%).

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The graph below, taken from WANTED Analytics, details the number of new online job listings for 4 of the 5 occupations showing growth in October:

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Both types of "Computer Software Engineers" saw declines in October. These were the only two IT occupations to experience a significant drop in October.

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