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Report
demonstrates continued momentous growth of state’s tech sector
An annual analysis
of the nation’s tech industry released Tuesday by CompTIA found Michigan added
13,160 net new tech jobs in 2017, third only to California and Texas. The
report also ranked Michigan ninth overall in net tech employment.
In addition to added
jobs, the Cyberstates 2018 report shows Michigan’s tech sector is increasingly contributing
to its economy – responsible for an estimated $34.7 billion, or 7.5 percent, of
the overall state economy.
“The continued growth
of Michigan’s tech industry is encouraging and the Cyberstates ranking
reaffirms Michigan’s place as a national leader in tech employment,” Gov. Rick
Snyder said. “Through efforts like the Marshall Plan for Talent, Michigan is
reinventing the way we develop, attract and invest in talent. We’re continuing
to help Michiganders fill high-tech, high-salary and in-demand jobs as the IT
field continues its rapid growth throughout our state.”
The governor’s Marshall
Plan for Talent is a revolutionary partnership between educators,
employers and stakeholders to transform how the state develops talent. It seeks
to help Michiganders fill career openings in fields that are facing critical
talent shortages – including IT and computer science, which is expected to have
more than 270,600 job openings through 2024. State experts predict this field
will grow at double the rate of the occupational average.
This is in line with
the Cyberstates report, which shows a 43.4-percent increase in the number of
job postings related to emerging technologies – such as the Internet of Things,
smart cities, drones, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual
reality and augmented reality, and blockchain.
The state’s leading
tech occupations include software and web developers, computer support
specialists, and computer system and information security analysts, with the
strongest year-over-year job growth happening in R&D, testing, and
engineering services and software.
Cyberstates 2018 is
based on CompTIA’s analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, EMSI, Burning Glass Technologies Labor
Insights, and other sources. The full Cyberstates 2018 report, with complete
national, state and metropolitan level data, is available here.
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