Engineering employment rose by 0.13% in May to more than 2.6 million jobs, the TechServe Alliance reported. Year over year, engineering employment was up by 4.48% or 111,600 jobs.

Meanwhile, IT employment in the US increased in May but at a slower rate than in previous months. However, all the IT jobs lost during the pandemic have recovered.

It found the number of tech employees in the US rose by 0.22%, or 5.35 million jobs in May. Year over year, the number of tech jobs were up 2.64% or by 137,700.

“IT employment is now at historic levels having fully recovered all jobs lost as result of the pandemic,” TechServe Alliance CEO Mark Roberts said. “While IT employment grew at respectable rate in May, the rate of growth decelerated from the extraordinary growth rates we experienced in recent months. I attribute this deceleration to the challenge we were confronting before the onset of Covid — an insufficient supply of talent in many IT skill sets.”