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In 2022, 9.4 million people in the EU worked as ICT specialists, representing 4.6% of the total EU workforce. The share of ICT specialists in the EU has been increasing over the last decade, rising by 1.4 percentage points (pp) since 2012.

Among the EU countries, the share of ICT specialists was highest in Sweden (8.6%), followed by Luxembourg (7.7%) and Finland (7.6%). The lowest shares were observed in Greece (2.5%), Romania (2.8%) and Poland (3.6%).

From 2012 to 2022, the number of ICT specialists in the EU surged by 57.8%, which is nearly 6.6 times the growth rate for employment (+8.8%). 

 

Bar graph: Porportion of ICT specialists in total employment, 2022, in %

Source dataset: isoc_sks_itspt

Highest shares of women in ICT in Bulgaria, Romania and Estonia

The share of women working as ICT specialists experienced a marginal decline in 2022 compared with 2021 (18.9% compared with 19.1%), breaking the upward trend observed since 2014. 

 

Bar graph: Distribution of ICT specialists by sex, 2022, in %

Source dataset: isoc_sks_itsps

 

Among the EU countries, the highest shares of women among employed ICT specialists were observed in Bulgaria (28.9%), Romania (25.2%) and Estonia (24.5%), while the smallest shares were observed in Czechia (10.9%) and Hungary (13.6%). 

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Methodological notes 

  • ICT specialists: people who have the ability to develop, operate and maintain ICT systems and for whom ICT constitutes the main part of their job.
  • ICT specialists’ statistics are derived from Labour Force Survey statistics.
  • As of 2021, as a consequence of implementing the new regulation on Integrated European Social Statistics, definitions differ in Spain and France: see the source data (Labour Force Survey) metadata for more details. 
  • Croatia: data for women have low reliability.

 

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