South Florida’s IT professionals are enjoying more job opportunities and better salary hikes, according to a jobs survey released Thursday to coincide with next week’s ITPalooza conference in Fort Lauderdale.
The annual tech professionals event is scheduled Dec. 7 at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center at 1950 Eisenhower Blvd.
All hiring managers who responded to the ITPalooza survey said they’ve increased salaries in the past year, with 68 percent saying those increases are up to 5 percent. Thirty-two percent said they’ve increased salaries by more than 5 percent.
Last year, 52 percent of employers said salaries were going up.
Seventy-five percent of IT professionals, as well as sales and marketing managers, surveyed said South Florida has plenty of IT jobs to go around, with 41 percent saying job opportunities were increasing in the region.
Of those surveyed, 53 percent said they’d be willing to entertain a new opportunity. That’s up from 50 percent in 2016.
There were 105 IT professionals and 26 hiring managers who responded to the 2017 survey.
More than 50 national and local speakers are scheduled for the event including Tom Conophy, chief technology officer at AutoNation in Fort Lauderdale; Daniel Cane, co-founder and CEO of Modernizing Medicine in Boca Raton; Steven Fleisher, founder and CEO of Two Degrees, a social media app developer in Boca Raton; Kyle Leciejewski, vice president for Dell EMC; and Corey Williams, senior director of product management and marketing at Centrify.
The conference takes place from 8:45 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., with speakers and educational sessions all day, and a cocktail and dinner reception in the evening.
For a detailed schedule and tickets to ITPalooza, go to www.itpalooza.org.
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