The demand for technical profiles related to technological degrees and, above all, computing, grows every year and Spain is at the head of European countries in the creation of digital positions.
In a decade the number of these specialists has grown by 76% in Spainaccording to the VI edition of the Employability and Digital Talent Study, prepared by the VASS Foundation and the Foundation of the Autonomous University of Madrid.
According to the analysis, although the pace of technical job creation has slowed, The demand for ICT specialists remains high.
In 2023, the ICT sector contributed 50,703 million euros to the Spanish economy and represented 3.5% of all activity.
At the beginning of this year he employed 683,200 professionals and, although the pace of hiring has decreased, from growth rates of 7% in 2022 to 4% in the first half of 2024, the number of people employed in the digital services sector is close to 700,000.
Unemployment in the engineering sector is barely 4%, according to the report, which indicates that, during the last 10 years, The EU has incorporated almost 4 million new ICT specialistsof which 940,000 come from Spain.
In the last three years, the technical profiles that Spain has provided They add up to 193,1000, while those of Germany were 173,000, those of Italy 153,000 and those of France 130,000.
More ICT qualifications
According to the analysis, for which the opinion of 83 experts From 67 companies, 27 Spanish universities, 96 teachers and 952 students in the latest technological engineering courses, in the 2023-24 academic year there were a total of 418 ICT university degrees, 46% more than those that existed in the 2015- academic year. 16.
Demand has increased so much that in seven years almost 51,000 young people were left without a place.
Another report recently published by the Knowledge and Development Foundation (CyD) on the employability of young people in 2024 also emphasizes that IT is the field with the greatest growth in offers places.
In fact, electrical, electronic, software development, applications, computer, telecommunications, or energy and mechanical engineering have a 90% employability
However, there is still an obstacle and, according to the AMETIC Study of wages and Labor Policy presented this week, 91% of companies have had difficulties finding qualified talent, due to high demand and rapid technological evolution.
few women
However, although women’s qualifications in ICT degrees have grown exponentially, it is still is still low.
The study by the Autonomous University indicates that, since the 2015-2016 academic year, The number of girls enrolled in computer science courses has doubled, but at the moment they only represent 21% of university graduates of this career, 12% from the higher vocational training cycle in computer science and 6.7% from the intermediate degree.
In the workplace, only three out of ten positions in technology companies are occupied by women compared to the 46% of men.
Higher salary levels
The high employability of this type of specialists is linked to salary levels that are the 49% above average from those in the Industry, construction and services sector.
If in the rest of the sectors, between 2008 and 2023 salaries have grown by 22%, in the sector associated with ICT they have grown by almost 4% and the salaries of computer scientists have increased between 31% and 35% since 2019.
AMETIC highlights that the average salary in the Digital Technology sector is currently 47,300 euros per year, 3.1% more than last year.
On the other hand, the Knowledge and Development Foundation (CyD) report also highlights that the field of software and application development is the one with the highest percentage of contracts indefinite, 97%.
And all the analyzes agree that one year after finishing the studies, the computer engineering degree occupies the first position in terms of affiliation to Social Security.
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