Growing by 2 percent in 2011, tech-related jobs are nearing their pre-recession levels, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s end-of-year report based on surveys of U.S. households in 2011 shows that IT unemployment fell to 3.7 percent in 2011 from 5.3 percent in 2010.
In 2011 about 3.98 million people worked in 12 IT-related job categories, near the 4 million employed in tech before the recession in 2008.
The number of IT workers fell to 3.78 million, a low point, in 2009.
According to the survey, about 83,000 IT jobs were created in 2011.
A number of surveys of executives have shown that modest IT hiring is expected in 2012.
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