the market of technology is in constant development according to IDC Brazil, in the coming years, the professions investments in the country, referring to the technology sector, should reach US$48 billion.
New professional areas will be highlighted on the national scene, artificial intelligence will be at its peak, 5G technology will be tested in Brazil and several other events will be highlighted.
ABES Growth
Data from the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES) reveal a growth of 6.7% in the global IT sector, and in Brazil the segment grew 9.8%.
Although the result exceeded local expectations, which were 4.1%, it was above the 4.5% achieved between 2017 and 2018.
The domestic market generated US$ 46.6 billion last year. Of this total, US$23.9 billion (51.3%) refer to investments in hardware, US$12.2 billion (26.2%) to services and US$10.5 billion (22.5%) to software.
Altogether, there are approximately 19,372 thousand companies operating in the Software and Services sector in Brazil, with 5,294 (27.3%) of them dedicated to the development and production of software.
Earlier this year, the largest professional social network, LinkedIn, released the “Emerging Professions” survey for 2020. This study points out that professions related to the information technology (IT) and internet sectors should predominate in the job market.
emerging professions
This is how the research ranked the 15 emerging professions in Brazil and, of this total, 13 are directly related to IT or the internet.
Fabrício Fávaro, managing director of ITMaster, a company of the Globalsys group, says that the sector has grown over the years and is also very hot in Espírito Santo.
“The market is always looking for IT professionals here in the state, mainly in the development area. Our company has contact with colleges to qualify the training of these professionals.
Therefore, the demand for this professional is very high, not only here, but throughout the country there is a great search for people who work in the IT sector”, he says.
Tito Fideles, financial director at Madan, an institution focused on preparatory courses, says that there has been an increase in interest in courses related to technology and the internet.
“It is a global phenomenon. These are the sectors that involve digital technology. We are in the digital era, which evolves quickly and creates new positions, professions and, consequently, the interest in them in the labor market.
Therefore, the greatest demand for courses is for Medicine and Engineering, which continue to be the highest cut-off points. Within engineering we were able to notice a greater deviation for Computing. At some universities, such as ITA, programming disciplines have become part of the curriculum of all engineering disciplines”, he says.
According to Zirlene Effgen, coordinator of the Information Technology courses at the UCL Faculty, the demand cited by Fideles is due to the high employability of the IT area.
IT students
“However, our third period students are practically all doing internships. This is difficult to happen, just compare with other courses. IT students don't graduate without being employed.
However, in the seventh or eighth period, they are already competing for jobs. The development areas are areas that absorb a lot of our students. Although in great demand. Several areas were affected as a result of the crisis, but the IT area remained and employability did not drop”, he comments.
