Romania reports close to 168,000 ICT employees in 2016

Georgiana Bendre 19/07/2017 | 12:53

Close to 168,000 were employed in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in 2016 in Romania, meaning 2 percent of the overall employment level, compared with 2011, when there were close to 125,000 people employed in the field, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Out of the overall people employed in ITC in 2016, 73.7 percent were men.

In the European Union (EU), 8.2 million persons were employed in 2016 as ICT specialists, representing 3.7 percent of total employment. Over recent years, both the number and the share of ICT specialists in total employment have continuously risen to better adapt to a digitalised world. This profession is largely made up of men, accounting in 2016 for more than 8 out of 10 ICT specialists employed in the EU (83.3 percent), and of highly educated people, with more than 6 in 10 ICT specialists (61.8 percent) having a tertiary education or higher.

In 2016, three member states accounted for half of all ICT specialists employed in the EU. These were the United Kingdom (1.6 million persons), Germany (1.5 million) and France (1 million).

In relative terms, the highest shares of ICT specialists in total employment were recorded in Finland (6.6 percent) and Sweden (6.3 percent), ahead of Estonia (5.3 percent), the United Kingdom (5.1 percent) and the Netherlands (5 percent). At the opposite end of the scale, Greece (1.4 percent) registered the lowest proportion, followed by Romania (2 percent), Cyprus and Latvia (both 2.2 percent).

In 2016, 1 in 5 enterprises in the EU (20 percent) employed ICT specialists and nearly 1 in 10 (9 percent) recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists. However, 41 percent of enterprises which recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists had difficulties in filling vacancies.These data, issued by Eurostat are notably used for several EU policies, in particular the initiatives under the Digital Single Market strategy.

Compared with 2011, both the absolute number and the share of ICT specialists in total employment increased in almost all member states by 2016, especially in Estonia, France, Germany, Portugal, Finland, Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary.

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