Reporting of reasons behind IT skills gap worldwide 2016-2017

Published by
Ahmed Sherif,
Jul 7, 2023
This statistic shows the IT decision-makers' reporting of reasons behind skills gaps in the IT industry in 2016 and 2017. In 2017, 45 percent of the IT decision-makers thought that not investing enough in training was one of the reasons behind skills gaps in IT.

Reasons behind IT industry's skills gap worldwide in 2016 and 2017

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Release date

April 2017

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

September 12 to November 4, 2016

Number of respondents

12,500+*

Special properties

IT professionals

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Multiple answers are possible.

* According to the source, "the survey yielded more than 12,500 completed responses from IT employees around the globe, with more than 50 percent coming from the United States and Canada, and the remainder from countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe."

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