OREANDA-NEWS. January 25, 2016. In the European Union (EU), nearly 8 million persons were employed in 2014 as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists, representing 3.7% of total employment.

Over recent years, both the number and the share of ICT specialists in total employment have continuously increased to better adapt to an ever digitalised world.

However, almost 40% of enterprises with at least 10 persons employed which recruited or tried to recruit personnel for jobs requiring ICT specialist skills had hard-to-fill vacancies in 2014.