Argentina recorded the highest growth in new developers in South America in 2022, according to a report from a global platform, the result of which is consistent with official data Record 34 continuous months of rise and with those of companies that demonstrated an increase in employment in the industry greater than that of all private activities.
A report from the GitHub platform which enjoys the recognition of industry experts, explained this Argentina was the country in South America that saw the largest increase (41%) in the number of new programmers in 2022 compared to the previous year.
Although this platform measures the users of its services and does not distinguish between developers working for companies that pay taxes in Argentina or for companies abroad, the increase is a constant in various assessments of employment trends in this activity.
According to the Chamber of Software and Computer Services Companies (Cessi), 35,000 new jobs have been created in Argentina in the last two years in this sector alone an increase of 21.5%, which is higher than the increase in total private sector employment, which was 13.1% in the same period analyzed.
In addition, the camera that represents The industry in Argentina said it still had between 10,000 and 15,000 jobs which could be created if there were trained human resources.
The company worked with the national government in formulating training programs such as the Argentina program and others. With that in mind, he spread it So far this year, more than 4,000 people have registered on the First Employment portal and that more than 18,000 have taken part in the “Software as a Future” training that the company conducts with companies in the sector.
The variety of courses to approach the world of programming in Argentina has been widely accepted by young people and adults, which is confirmed by the report from the Boomeran job portal, which shows an increase in applications for young talent profiles in the technology sector in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year.
This report also found that “technology demand continued in the first half of 2023, with a greater need for middle managers (72% senior/semi-senior), although participation in lower level (junior) job advertisements was 11.7%. % in 2022 to 26% in 2023).
On the other hand, the Ministry of Economy stated in the latest report that last May employment in knowledge-based services (KBS) It added 305,789 jobs and “added 34 months of continuous annual gains.”
They said employment in the knowledge economy in the series excluding seasonality was “18.6% above December 2019.” When broken down by activity, the IT subsector was “the most dynamic within the SBC: it has grown continuously year-on-year since December 2013.”
The report added that “the company contributed 1.1 percentage points to the overall increase due to its growth and weight in the SBC sector (47.5%).”
