Germany: ICT services number of employees 2021

In 2021, the number of employees in the ICT services industry in Germany increased by 62,278 employees (+5.38 percent) since 2020. With 1,219,136 employees, the number of employees thereby reached its highest value in the observed period.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the information and communication technology (ICT) services sector in Germany from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	1,219,136
2020	1,156,858
2019	1,151,989
2018b	1,153,566
2017	1,004,823
2016	958,752
2015	909,418
2014	883,696
2013	830,482
2012	775,980

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Release date

March 2024

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Germany

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to aggregate G-U_ICT of CE Rev 2.

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