Det går bra, mycket bra för Silicon Valley just nu. Mängder med nya startupföretag, många inom Web 2.0-sektorn, jagar kvalificerade IT-ingenjörer med en frenesi som vi inte har sätt sen millennieskiftet.

Paul McHugh skriver i San Francisco Chronicle om IT-marknaden i Silicon Valley och Kalifornien som helhet:

For the first time since the state lost tens of thousands of jobs after the dot-com collapse, California companies have added tech workers to their payrolls, according to a report that tracks nationwide employment in the industry.

The Cyberstates report unveiled today by the American Electronics Association said the state added 14,400 net jobs, an increase of 2 percent that boosted the tech industry total to 919,322 in 2005, according to the most current state data available.

California’s gains mark “the first net increase in jobs (here) since the tech bubble began to burst in 2000,” the association said.

The 150-page report shows that the health of the industry at the state and national level is much improved since it hit bottom in 2004.

The big-picture Cyberstates report corroborates more localized snapshots of the region’s tech-heavy economy. The Joint Venture Silicon Valley study that came out in January, for instance, showed a 2.9 percent increase in tech-industry jobs in the region between June 2005 and June 2006.

Även om så gott som alla företag idag utlokaliserar till Indien, Kina eller Ryssland så är arbetsmarknaden här ändå mycket robust just nu. Men som alltid gäller det kvalificerad arbetskraft.

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