en.Wedoany.com Reported - Employment in the U.S. tech workforce grew in May. This conclusion comes from an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by CompTIA, a leading global provider of vendor-neutral IT training and certification.

In May, tech occupation employment in the U.S. increased by 69,000, covering technology professionals across all industries. The total number of tech occupation workers nationwide is estimated at 5.9 million. The unemployment rate for tech occupations in May was 3.1%, down from 3.5% in April.

Tech industry employment rose by approximately 6,700 jobs month-over-month. New positions were primarily concentrated in cloud infrastructure, data processing and hosting, and IT custom software services and systems design.

Seth Robinson, Vice President of Industry Research at CompTIA, stated that companies aim to build capabilities in core operational functions, enabling them to develop practices in artificial intelligence, data, and cybersecurity.

Employers posted nearly 587,000 active tech job listings in May, including nearly 269,000 new postings, an increase of about 4,000 from April. Based on the number of job postings, the highest-demand roles included software developers and engineers, systems engineers and architects, technical support specialists, and cybersecurity engineers and analysts. Web developers, SEO specialists, and telecommunications engineering experts saw the largest month-over-month increases in job postings.

Geographically, the metropolitan areas with the highest number of tech job openings were New York, Washington, and Dallas.

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