Engineering jobs increased in the US last month, according to a report by the TechServe Alliance, a trade association of the engineering and IT staffing and solutions industry. Engineering employment was up by 0.41% to more than 2.6 million jobs in August.

On a year-over-year basis, engineering employment has increased by 3.08%, adding 78,600 engineering workers.

Separately, IT employment edged up by 0.06% to a record-high of nearly 5.4 million jobs in August. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment has increased by 4.60%, adding 236,400 IT workers.

“While IT employment reached a new all-time high, the rate of growth has slowed to a trickle,” said TechServe Alliance CEO Mark Roberts.

“In talking with owners and executives of IT staffing companies who specialize in recruiting IT professionals, demand is ‘off the charts’ with a limited supply of available talent. It is a candidate-driven market,” Roberts continued. “To be successful, a company interested in hiring IT professionals in high-demand skill sets must be willing to offer competitive wages (many do not), have a workplace culture that is attractive to workers, allow for maximum flexibility and make hiring decisions quickly. Fall short on any of these fronts, and you are likely to be on the losing side of the ‘war for talent.’”