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IT market
The Dutch IT labour market: what cooled, what did not, and where specialists remain hard to reach.
Security engineers are scarce. Engineers who understand why a control exists are scarcer
Most leaks start in ordinary technical work. Developers, administrators and consultants who understand ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls are now worth more than…
Fewer ICT vacancies, more experienced ICT people available
The Dutch ICT labour market has turned in three years. Vacancies fall, the number of ICT people on benefits rises, partly through bank reorganisations.…
A cooler IT market is not an easier one
The Dutch IT labour market has cooled since 2023. Hiring has not become easy: the problem moved from finding enough people to finding the…
A cloud exit is a staffing question first
Whether a company can leave its cloud provider depends less on contracts and alternatives than on whether it has the people to do the…
The future of Java development and its labour market
Java holds its place among programming languages, and the AI work in large organisations increasingly lands on the JVM. What to do if you…
The Java developer market
The Java market is broad and mobile, but most of it hides behind other job titles. A vacancy for a "Java developer" reaches only…
The IT architect market
Architects stay in their roles longer and switch less than developers. A vacancy alone reaches few of them; the hire starts with a direct…
The real market for developers
The number of software developers in the Netherlands keeps growing, yet employers find the market empty. The real market is the small flow of…