Source media.dice.com
DATA PUBLISHED AUGUST 2015
In Minnesota, the high-tech workforce jumped 8.36 percent over the past six months, to 37,600 workers!
The fastest-growing state for technology jobs this year so far isn’t California – not Silicon Valley – and it not New York, not Texas, or any of the other handful of states that have been bending over backwards trying to win the high-tech center of the world crown. When it comes to tech jobs, its Minnesota leading on growth right now, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In Minnesota, the high-tech workforce jumped 8.36 percent over the past six months, to 37,600 workers!
Minnesota cities like Minneapolis (home base for George Konik Associates http://www.georgekonik.com/), Saint Paul (the capital of Minnesota and the seat of many of GKA’s prestigious clients), and others around the state include a broad mix of startups, service providers, and major corporations (17 Fortune 500 companies in all) in need of tech talent. Over-all, according to the data, tech-job growth in these cities has been steady heading into a 12 month sprint of hiring.
The top seventeen states that experienced percentage increases in their tech-pro workforce:
1. Minnesota Technical Jobs (8.36 percent)
2. Utah (5.75 percent)
3. Nebraska (5.22 percent)
4. Michigan (4.47 percent)
5. Florida (4.27 percent)
6. Massachusetts (3.75 percent)
7. New York (3.58 percent)
8. Maryland (3.45 percent)
9. Oregon (3.42 percent)
10. California (3.04 percent)
11. Virginia (2.31 percent)
12. Illinois (2.14 percent)
13. Texas (1.97 percent)
14. Ohio (1.39 percent)
15. Missouri (1.17 percent)
16. Georgia (0.96 percent)
17. New Jersey (0.43 percent)
George Konik Associates is a leading technical recruiting firm based in Minneapolis. GKA serves the technical recruiting needs of both companies and individual job seekers in Minnesota and neighboring states.
Tech jobs that George Konik Associates Recruiting is especially experienced in include:
IT, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Civil Engineering, Networking, Manufacturing, Design, Drafting, Architecture, Technical Support, Quality Assurance, Database, Security, Supervisors, Managers, Senior Executives