So far in 2025, the job market for IT jobs in the United States has not shown great strength; downward revisions to the Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics for May and June indicate that job losses in July are part of the IT sector slowdown than had been earlier believed.
Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed little job increase last month, the weak payroll growth statistics obscured a more troubling problem. A significant percentage of the employment growth recorded for May and June was erroneous. Amidst U.S.-China trade war, the domestic mine project has increased the number of labourers.
According to the BLS, May’s statistics called for an IT sector slowdown revision of 125,000 jobs, hence resulting in only 19,000 jobs being added; June’s figures were adjusted even further, with 133,000 jobs falsely reported as added to payrolls that month. Thus, just 14,000 new positions were actually added in June.
Janco, an IT management consulting company, remarked on the May and June revisions, “Adjustments at the IT sector slowdown magnitude are not acceptable from any organization.” Though irrespective of the underlying causes, it implies the IT job market looks much less vibrant than it did only a month ago; Janco credited these changes to “poor data capture, poor infrastructure, incompetence, or political gerrymandering.”
Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco, said in relation to the most recent revised BLS numbers that the IT job market had slowdown by 26,500 year-to-date. This follows a decrease of 4,300 jobs for May, a decrease of 7,800 jobs for June, and a statement showing that 10,300 jobs were lost in July. For those tracking the statistics, this implies a shortage of 20,300 jobs as opposed to the 6,200-job deficit at the same time in 2024, and we are now entering the season usually with the highest number of layoffs.
In a related development, US President Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer soon after the IT sector slowdown report’s publication, alleging the BLS had falsified the data to depict him negatively.