Tribune staff | Hiring demand for information technology professionals in Illinois was up 27 percent in April from a year earlier, as companies were seeking almost 7,600 workers, according to Wanted Technologies, a company that tracks job postings.

Where are there the most IT jobs this spring? It’s in New York City, where April IT job postings were up 74 percent from a year earlier, twice that of California’s growth rate.

Nationally, the number of online postings for information technology
jobs rose 34 percent year-over-year in April, to 185,000 ads.

With about 3 million IT workers in the United States, that translated to
one job ad for every 16 IT workers, the company said. A year earlier,
it was one job ad for every 23 IT workers. Still, it’s far below the
2008 peak of 240,000 job ads.