From Amazon to Salesforce, the world’s leading tech companies are shedding thousands of workers, but enterprise IT departments have largely been isolated from recent layoffs hitting the tech sector.
However, there are some signs that the white-hot IT labor market is finally beginning to cool; for example, Capital One making the decision in January to cut the agile group within its tech department, among many other IT layoffs.
Meanwhile, IT employment tracker Janco Associates noted recently that the market shrank by 4,700 jobs in January with 100,000 unfilled positions — the first time the IT hiring trend has gone negative in 27…