Mumbai: Even as the coronavirus pandemic affected the overall job scenario across industries in the country, the demand for job roles in the IT sector continues to remain unaffected with maximum job roles and compensation offered in cities like Bengaluru and Pune, according to a report.
According to the report by job platform SCIKEY Market Network, demand for job roles in the IT sector continued to be unaffected despite the pandemic. The major job roles that were in demand during November were project manager, software developer, software tester, consultant and digital marketing lead, it added.
"As the businesses go virtual during the pandemic, the IT sector is growing gradually with increasing demand of job roles in the sector with an increased use of technology," SCIKEY Market Network Co-founder Karunjit Kumar Dhir said.
He added that the IT sector remains one of the least-affected sectors across the globe as it has played a major role in digital transformation amid the pandemic with companies adopting technology and hybrid working models. "The Indian IT workforce accounts for 4.36 million employees, as of 2020."
The report is based on data of job listings on the SCIKEY platform during November.
The data showed that the demand for project manager roles across sectors were the highest in Bengaluru followed by Delhi-NCR and Pune.
Demand for project managers was the highest in the IT sector (55 per cent), followed by construction (6 per cent), recruitment (5 per cent) and banking (3 per cent).
The report further stated that the demand for developers was the highest in Bengaluru with 35 per cent, and out of that total demand, 65 per cent was in the IT sector.