IT jobs rose for the second month in a row in September after taking a hit from the pandemic in the spring, according to a report by the TechServe Alliance, a trade association of the IT and engineering staffing and solutions industry. IT employment was up by 0.47% to nearly 5.2 million jobs in September.

“The wave of layoffs in IT triggered at the onset of the pandemic have clearly abated,” TechServe Alliance CEO Mark Roberts said.

“With the explosion of ‘work from home’ and the strength of those sectors leveraging ‘digital transformation,’ businesses have clearly seen that investment in IT is an imperative,” Roberts continued. “While these trends will continue to support growth of IT employment in some sectors, hard hit areas of the economy will continue to struggle to maintain headcount in skill sets of types including IT.”

Separately, engineering employment rose by 0.49% in September to a total of nearly 2.6 million jobs.