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The Relationship between Job Skills and the Level of Job Availability in the Information Technology Industry: An Analysis of Information Technology Job Market
Journal of Business and Technology 6(2): 95–118 · 2022
https://doi.org/10.4038/jbt.v6i2.91
Abstract
According to the national statistics, the Information Technology (IT) industry provides massive rapidly growing strength of the workforce in Sri Lanka. When consider the job availability of the IT industry it mostly depends on the five skills of the applier. Programming language, full-stack development, front-end development, back-end development, and databases are playing a major role in IT skills. This paper presents a recent survey on those five major skills used by Sri Lankan employees in the IT industry and a recent index of their popularity and industry trends. The internet job database was selected as the data gathering source for this study. Then Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) was used for analyzing the sample dataset. Job skills examine with job opportunities in entry-level, mid-level, and senior-level. Based on the analysis, research found that what are the expectations in each level of jobs in the current IT job market. The result of this research should be useful to job seekers, IT stakeholders, and also fresh undergraduates can be obtained a crystal-clear analysis about the new trends based on programming languages and other essential requirements of the current IT sector.
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