(Finance) – The digital transition forcefully bursts into the labor market, modifying it, so much so that today the 12% of online job advertisements in Italy concern “digital jobs”. Among these, the most widespread offers concern software developers, programmers and engineers, almost half of the digital jobs in our country (44%), but there is no shortage of Data Analyst / Administrator (21%), ICT and HR managers or marketing specialists ( 21%) and data entry and ICT technicians (15%).
This is what emerges from the report produced by the OECD in collaboration with Randstad, which using Big Data analyzed 417 million job advertisements posted online in 10 countries in the last decade to understand trends in the demand for digital jobs, identify skills requests and the most effective retraining paths for people’s careers.
Italy, together with Spainshows the highest percentage of ads concerning digital jobs, equal to 12% of the total job vacancies on the web. Followed by Holland, Singapore and UK (11%), Germany (10%), Belgium (9%), USA and France (7%), Canada (6%). Among the different professions, the highest growth rates in all countries, including ours, concern software developers, programmers and engineers, data scientists and engineersthe. In our country, the number of online job advertisements for network and database professionals has almost increased 9 times between 2014 and 2021, reaching more than 2000 new positions available per year.
“Digital jobs have seen a sharp increase in the volume of job advertisements posted online in every country, starting with Italy – he says Marco Ceresa, Group CEO Randstad -. But the digital transition is impacting even more the skills needed for each profile. The report reveals that the demand for digital skills has now surpassed that of any other: the digital skills they are the new bargaining chip on the job market, because they open up various opportunities for career development and transition. And the digital professions of the future are often an evolution of traditional professions, thanks to the acquisition of new specific skills ”.