Thirty-six percent of information technology leaders expect to increase contingent and permanent IT headcount in the next three months, according to the IT executive outlook survey released this week by TEKsystems. Of those IT leaders expecting to increase contingent and permanent headcount, 15 percent plan to grow by more than 5 percent.

“Many IT leaders rely more heavily on the contingent hiring model because it simplifies workforce planning as projects have a finite start and end date,” said Jason Hayman, TEKsystems’ market research analyst. “An organization can augment its teams appropriately without assuming the fixed costs associated with permanent hires.”

Sixty-five percent of IT leaders report difficulty in finding enterprise architects, 60 percent reported difficulty in finding cloud architects, and 51 percent reported difficulty in finding business intelligence and security specialists.

TEKsystems partnered with the Inavero Institute to conduct the quarterly survey of more than 2,100 IT leaders.