Almost 10% of jobs are not covered in the digital sector

Thousands of positions to take. According to a study by the Institut Montaigne, almost 10% of jobs are not covered in the digital sector, that is, around 85,000 positions.

Certain professions are particularly affected by these hiring problems, particularly those dedicated to the digital transformation of companies, such as traffic analyst, SEO manager, team manager, cloud and network engineer or even “product owner”.

Looking for cybersecurity manager

But the cybersecurity manager remains the hardest to find, with three-quarters of the positions vacant, the liberal think tank stresses. Professions related to design, development or marketing also experience recruitment difficulties, although to a lesser extent. In the tail, among the least tense in the sector, we find more mature professions such as maintenance technician, web designer or account manager.

An observation to qualify: the trades that experience significant recruitment pressures are not necessarily those that, in terms of volume, recruit the most. No less than 365,000 job offers to hire an IT developer were published between 2017 and 2022, according to the Institut Montaigne, which also counts 164,000 job offers for maintenance technicians, or 141,000 offers for digital marketing.

training challenge

And the needs will only increase in the years to come. If digital represents 945,000 jobs today, it will have between 1.2 million and 2 million in 2030, according to the different scenarios studied by the study. Thus, it will be necessary to train between 476,000 and 1,300,000 people to cover the needs of the labor market, advances the Montaigne Institute, which estimates that France should be able to train 130,000 people a year by 2030 to ensure the future of the sector.

However, jobs are still unevenly distributed in France. Half of them (50.2%) are now concentrated in Île-de-France, well ahead of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (10.3%), Occitanie (6.9%) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d ‘Azur (5.9%). Furthermore, feminization stands out as the other big challenge: the digital professions currently only have less than 20% women, estimates the Institut Montaigne.