Orlando led the nation for the growth of tech job postings in the first half of the year, according to the new Dice Tech Job Report.
Metro Orlando tech job openings in the first six months of the year grew 111% compared to the first half of 2021. Other Florida metros also ranked high for year-over-year tech job growth, including No. 2 Miami (104%), No. 8 Tampa (71%) and No. 14 Jacksonville (58%).
The numbers from Dice's report demonstrates demand for tech talent in Orlando was been high most of this year. Even though mass layoffs hit big tech employers on the West Coast in late Q2, Central Florida's tech job market wasn't affected the same way.
Though Orlando was the top metro for the growth in job postings, it was not one of the top 25 markets with the most overall tech job postings. New York, Chicago and Atlanta took the top three spots, respectively.
Overall, even as layoffs hit the tech industry, the report noted demand for tech talent remains high. The report looked at 3 million tech job postings from January to June of this year.
"While the continued strength of the tech job market may come as a surprise to some readers, the results are due to tech hiring maintaining momentum across a wide range of industries. Companies not normally categorized as tech (i.e., those not traditionally referred to as tech companies, but are still investing in technology) continue to recruit and hire tech talent at a rapid pace. These gains outweighed the impact of hiring freezes and layoffs at tech-focused organizations," the report read.
The Dice report also listed the top 50 employers of tech talent during the first half of 2022. Although the list wasn't ranked, major local employers including The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Deloitte, L3Harris Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) and Siemens made the list.
While Dice's report showed a strong job market in the first half of the year, another recent report revealed local tech job postings declined in July. There were 3,507 open tech jobs in the metro last month, down from 4,484 in June, according to a Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) analysis of data from Burning Glass Technologies.
The 484,000 technology positions posted nationally in the month of July was down slightly from the previous month, but remains at a near-record level, according to CompTIA.
In fact, the industry as a whole gained 12,700 workers for the month, and with an unemployment rate of 1.7% in July, the tech industry continues to grow as others struggle in the face of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
"We're already starting with such a huge deficit of talent, even if you reduce some of those openings, there’s still a healthy number out there," Charlie Lewis, founder and CEO of Orlando-based recruiting firm BlueWave Resource Partners LLC, previously told Orlando Inno.
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