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11,500-plus new jobs added in 2018, according to CompTIA Cyberstates 2019™

Boston – Tech-related employment in the Boston metropolitan area increased by 11,579 new jobs in 2018, according to Cyberstates 2019™,  the definitive guide to tech sector and workforce analytics released this week by CompTIA, the leading technology industry association.

Net tech employment in the Boston market grew by 3.2 percent last year to an estimated 373,415 workers, or 13.2 percent of the region’s total workforce.[1] Since 2010 67,500 tech-related jobs have been added to the local economy.

Boston ranks fifth in net tech employment and third in jobs added among the 46 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas covered in the report.

Tech occupations in high demand in the market include computer support specialists (+3.5 percent year over year growth), computer system and cybersecurity analysts (+3.3 percent) and software and web developers (+2.7 percent).

The median tech occupation wage is $96,021; 75 percent higher than the median wage for all occupations.

The tech sector’s contribution to the local economy is estimated at $81.8 billion, equal to about 19.7 percent of the total economy. That economic impact is the sixth highest among the metro areas covered in the report.

The outlook for future employment growth is positive. The Boston market saw a 76 percent increase in the number of job postings related to emerging technologies.

Cyberstates projects the base of tech occupation employment – a subset of net tech employment – will grow by 6.8 percent in the region by 2026.

Cyberstates 2019 (#cyberstates) is based on CompTIA’s analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, EMSI, Burning Glass Technologies Labor Insights, and other sources. Estimates for 2018 are subject to change as government data is revised and updated. The full report, with complete national, state and metropolitan level data, is available at https://www.cyberstates.org/.

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