According to the last Eurostat survey, Luxembourg is one of the countries where ICT specialists are the most difficult to recruit.
The highest percentage of enterprises which had difficulties in recruiting ICT specialists was recorded in the Czech Republic and Luxembourg (both with 59%), followed by Austria (56%), the Netherlands (53%), Malta (52%), Estonia…
Luxembourg is also the most “sexist” place, with more than 89% of male ICT specialist, wich is more than the european average (80%).
Luxembourg’s job market is also one of the most “IT centric” with more than 5% of total employement, on a growing trend.
In the European Union (EU), nearly 8 million persons were employed in 2014 as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists, representing 3.7% of total employment. Over recent years, both the number and the share of ICT specialists in total employment have continuously increased to better adapt to an ever digitalized world. However, almost 40% of enterprises with at least 10 persons employed which recruited or tried to recruit personnel for jobs requiring ICT specialist skills had hard-to-fill vacancies in 2014.
More figures and information in the Eurostat Survey.