In an surprising flip, the US IT job market has seen over 100,000 unfilled jobs being eradicated, in accordance with a report from administration consulting agency Janco Associates.

“In a startling flip of occasions CIOs and hiring managers of IT professionals have seen the elimination of over 100K jobs from the open requisition for these positions,” Victor Janulaitis, CEO at Janco Associates, stated within the report.

The elimination of IT jobs is being thought of surprising as the US’ Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) information confirmed that the nation had added 223,000 jobs in December, together with 17,600 positions at expertise corporations, regardless of layoffs at high-profile expertise corporations dominating the month.

Preliminary studying of the info from sources resembling BLS confirmed that almost all positions eradicated throughout December have been administrative and non-technical in nature, Janulaitis stated, including {that a} second deep-dive into the info revealed the detrimental affect on IT roles.

“Reviewing the info, we now see that CIOs and hiring managers not solely eradicated these non-technical positions however have additionally began placing the break on IT tasks,” Janulaitis stated. This has led to cutbacks throughout manufacturing and IT operations, whereas builders weren’t as laborious hit.

Janco’s report additionally cited IT consulting corporations and impartial consultants, declaring that new initiatives throughout corporations have been placed on maintain and their groups are being requested to justify further extensions.

“Normally, this can be an omen that the nice occasions are about to finish. The flip from optimism to pessimism has been profound and fast,” the report stated, including that CIOs have been pulling again on something that can enhance headcount.

CFOs have been underneath strain to carry out value correction and are asking all departments to chop any useful resource that’s not “completely crucial,” the report famous.

Center managers at corporations have additionally been requested to justify current workers, Janulaitis stated, including that human useful resource groups have been informed to rent solely key personnel for operating operations or companies.

Janco is anticipated to place out a brand new report inspecting the speedy detrimental affect on IT job market after BLS information is launched later this week.