Engineering employment rose in February but remains down from pre-Covid levels, the TechServe Alliance reported.

Engineering employment grew by 0.12% from January to 2,582,700 jobs. However, engineering employment decreased by 3.01% since February 2020, a loss of 80,200 engineering workers on a year-over-year basis.

Meanwhile, IT employment continued its rebound in February but also remains down from pre-Covid levels.

“With seven consecutive months of strong growth, IT employment is less than 1% below pre-Covid levels,” TechServe Alliance CEO Mark Roberts said. “While the economic fallout from Covid-19 temporarily reduced demand in some skill sets, strong job growth over the last few months highlights our chronic long-term problem — a talent shortage in IT.”

IT jobs in the US rose by 0.43% in February to a total of nearly 5.3 million. Still, they were down 0.9% since February 2020 — a decrease of 48,100 IT jobs.

The TechServe Alliance is a national trade association of the IT and engineering staffing and solutions industry.