Source page: McKinsey & Company
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Technology | Talent
September 13, 2024 – All this week, our daily charts will focus on technology trends that matter most across industries in 2024. We’ll explore tech and AI advancements, investments, talent demands, and more.
Job postings in tech declined by 26 percent overall in 2023, but some tech sectors bucked the trend. McKinsey Global Institute partner Michael Chui and coauthors find that generative AI and electrification and renewables both saw job postings increase. The longer-term outlook is also positive. Over the past four years, most of the 15 technology sectors studied showed growth in job postings. Click through the interactive to see more.
To read the report, see “McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024,” July 16, 2024.
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Visual form
Multi-panel sequence of step charts.
Layout / body structure
The visual is a dashboard-style with one chart per slide and a visible 01-15 counter plus Prev and Next buttons, so the reader moves slide by slide through fifteen technology trends.
What is being compared
Each slide compares job-posting volumes by role title within a single technology trend from 2019 through 2023, and the full lets the reader compare how those role mixes differ across fifteen trends.
Measurement system
The core measure is the number of job postings over time, tracked across yearly points from 2019 to 2023, with role titles serving as the category labels inside each trend-specific chart.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each slide uses a stepped time-series layout, with multiple role lines or traces sharing the same frame, and the slide deck cycles through trends such as generative AI, applied AI, industrializing machine learning, advanced connectivity, cloud and edge computing, and climate technologies.
Main takeaway from the visual
The shows that tech hiring did not fall evenly: many software-engineering-heavy trends spike in 2022 and cool in 2023, while a smaller set of trend-specific roles still keep rising or hold up better than the rest.
Key standout values or extremes
The alt text makes clear that data scientists, software engineers, and data engineers dominate several AI-related slides, that generative AI postings continue to grow in 2023 while many other trend slides turn down, and that advanced connectivity shifts toward electronics technicians by 2023 instead of the earlier software-engineer pattern.
Controls / sequence, when applicable
The reader can move through fifteen slides with the Prev and Next controls, with each click replacing the current trend chart with the next one in sequence and updating the counter from 01-15 through 15-15.
Companion media, when applicable
There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart is the full visual on this page.