18.04.2023

COMPANIES ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR IT PROFESSIONALS

Companies are less and less looking for IT specialists. Job postings in this sector continue to decline for the sixth month in a row, data from JobTiger show. For March, there were 460 fewer offers, an 8% drop, for such positions. Over the year, the drop in IT specialist listings is 43% or 3,450 fewer offers than in March 2022.

At the end of last month, companies posted about 52,000 job offers on the leading sites. Their number has increased by 11% compared to the previous month of February. On an annual basis, offers are 1,200 fewer (-1%).

In almost all sectors there is an increase in advertisements. The only exception is the "IT" sector, the company reports.

The announcements in the "Accounting, audit, finance" sector are almost unchanged. Despite reporting a 0.5% drop, there were only 15 fewer listings than the previous month.

The ads in the "Hospitality and restaurant" sector continue to show the greatest growth. They are 2,670 more than in February, which is an increase of 36%, and their total number in March is 10,000.

Following it in terms of growth are the sectors "Trade and sales" (1770 offers more, 17% growth), "Manufacturing" (590 offers more, 8% growth), "Administrative and service activities" (480 offers more, 10% growth) , "Logistics & Transportation" (400 more offers, 9% growth), "Construction" (190 more offers, 7% growth), "Marketing & Advertising" (100 more offers, 7% growth) and "Healthcare & Pharmacy" (60 offers more, 3% growth).

Share distribution

As a share, the first place in terms of number of job advertisements is the sector "Trade and Sales" with 22%, followed by "Hospitality and Restaurant" (18%) and "Manufacturing" (15%).

Followed by the sectors "Administrative and service activities" (11%), "Logistics and transport" (9%), "IT" (8%) "Construction" (5%), "Accounting, audit, finance" (4.4%), "Healthcare and Pharmacy" (3.8%), "Marketing and Advertising" (3%) and "Art" (1%).

Work from home

According to the analysis, offers for working from home and/or telecommuting continue to decline. In March, there was a decrease of 5%, with their number being 4,380 (almost 250 less than the previous month). The main reason for the drop during the month in these ads is the decreasing number of offers in the "IT" sector.

The distribution of these offers by sector is: 58% in the "IT" sector, followed by "Administrative and service activities" (16%), the outsourcing industry sectors (14%) and "Trade and sales" (6%).

As a share, for the first time since the end of the pandemic, offers for work from home and/or telecommuting are less than 10% of all listings (9.7%).

Offer by city

The total number of advertisements in the leading regional cities increased by 8%. Growth is observed in each of them as follows: Sofia (5%), Plovdiv (6%), Varna (19%), Burgas (25%), Ruse (12%) and Stara Zagora (8%).

As a share, the ads for the city of Sofia are 41%, and in the other cities are: Plovdiv (10%), Varna (10%), Burgas (4%), Ruse (3%) and Stara Zagora (2%).

Ads suitable for refugees

The number of job postings suitable for refugees rose by 26% in February. The total number of this type of ads is about 3,000, which is a 6% share of all ads.