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Percent of Annual Growth of Specified IT Skills
| Position |
Time
Period |
| 1Q08 | 4Q07 | 1Q07 |
| Networking |
19 | 18 | 16 |
| Helpdesk/End-User Support |
14 | 15 |
15 |
| Applications Development |
12 | 14 | 13 |
| Internet/Intranet Development |
11 | 9 | 10 |
| Data/Database Management |
8 | 11 | 13 |
| Project Management |
8 | 6 | 6 |
| Information Security |
7 | 7 | 7 |
| Systems Analysis |
4 | 4 | 3 |
| Other/Don't Know |
17 | 16 | 17 |
|
Networking jobs will continue to grow within IT departments more than any other, edging up 3 percent in the first quarter of 2008 from the same period last year.
Most other positions, including applications and Internet/intranet development will hold steady.
But data management will drop off 5 percent over the year, and growth in information security jobs, despite its importance in protecting new applications and devices as well as corporate and customer data, is seen remaining stagnant.
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