Recession Rocks IT Profession

The recession hit the IT profession hard in 2009.

Unemployment among information technology managers and staffers jumped to 5.2 percent last year, up from 2.5 percent in 2008, according to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the highest level of unemployment among IT pros in six years, when joblessness stood at 5.6 percent.

Annualized IT unemployment rose 0.5 percentage point from the third to fourth quarter of 2009, a GovInfoSecurity.com's analysis of BLS data released Friday shows.

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