Hungary IT Sector Suffers Labour Shortage
- 6 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
Last year, 22,000 jobs in Hungary’s IT sector went unfilled, business daily Világgazdaság said. Counting positions indirectly affected by the labour shortage in the sector, altogether 72,000 jobs were vacant. The shortage has worsened this year, Ádám Horváth, who is in charge of education for IT business association IVSZ, said.
He noted that just 5,000 Hungarians started studying computer science and programming this year, one-third of the number necessary to meet demand for labour in the sector.
Only 6-8% of young Hungarians starting their studies at college or university enrolled into an IT programme.
Around half of those people, 52%, decide to discontinue their studies in the second year citing concern over the curriculum’s content and the age of the hardware.
Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.
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