Do You Know How Fast IT is growing in 2025?

Growth in business is measured in different ways: Revenue, workforce increases, and proliferation of new businesses opening, among others, and the area of IT Support is not much different.

Every year, researchers predict the growth of various Industries, and in 2025 it is the essential yet peripheral aspects of business that show the IT industry is among the top areas seeing the most investment from CEOs worldwide – as it has for years.

Small wonder, considering how crucial IT has been and continued to be as the world transitioned to a tenfold increase in end users working remotely. Many have since returned a good to the physical office, but many remain a remote workforce. Circumstances have created a new HR (another high-growth area) model – and we do not expect it to completely change back.

Here in the Charlotte IT Support community, we have seen many changes since the onset of COVID – it has been ‘survival of the fittest’, wherein marginal, less competent IT ‘players’ went under. Here at ITFITM.COM, we continue to see a slew of applications. The sad fact is how many people are woefully unqualified to take any position in our company. It may seem heartless, but the industry is better off if they do something else for a career.

What sector will do well in 2025?

There are a number of sectors to watch in this volatile year. Long after we emerged from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many things are still in flux, and investors have few certainties in which to take comfort.

Thousands of small consumer-based industries like restaurants and mom-and-pop retailers have gone by the wayside, never to reopen. Those that survived still face a dire workforce shortage. In the bigger picture, the ‘usual suspects’ continue to grow: Health Care, Transportation, Technology – especially with the Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc., and they all need expert IT.

IBISWorld ranks the Top 10 Fastest Growing Global Industries in terms of revenue percentage increase alone. The list might surprise the casual observer – Health Care and Managed IT Services did not make that cut. Interestingly, they predict Accounting services as the #1 Fastest Growing Industry.

What jobs will boom in 2025?

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the occupation offering the greatest projected growth rate from 2019 to 2029 is Forestry, so if you’re looking to get back to nature, this may be the time. IT, which they label ‘Computer Systems Design and Related Services’ comes in 7^th, below Personal Services, Mining Support and several health care related fields.

Topping the list in the LinkedIn report on the 25 fastest growing jobs in the U.S. are AI Engineer and AI Consultant. IT failed to make that list in spite of its stature as a growing industry. “How can that be?” one might ask. Much of it has to do with the top 2. We need less people to perform more work because of AI and automation. AI becomes capable of handling more IT tasks every day, removing a massive number of tech hours doing menial tasks.

However, even though the remote Help Desk can be effectively manned by fewer personnel, the entire gamut of specializations representing the overall Technology Industry continues to grow at an impressively expanding rate.

What is the fastest growing field in information technology?

Generally, #1 has been cybersecurity, but Data and Artificial Intelligence have edged their way into the top spot. Data, both professional and personal, is the most valued commodity in the world – how do you think that a ‘free to users’ platform like facebook enabled Mark Zuckerberg to amass a net worth of $122 Billion dollars?

For a rude awakening to the situation, watch the disturbing documentary ‘The Social Dilemma’, wherein many former ‘Big Tech’ architects spill some dirty little secrets.

The flood of data throughout cyberspace is like blood in the water to cyber-sharks, and as they keep chasing it, Cybersecurity must develop new ways to defeat them. This battle will never, ever stop, at least not by using any technologies available now, and constant Cyber-Warrior replacement troops are needed. It is an eternal game of ‘Whack-a-Mole’. It is a never-ending episode of The Roadrunner, and if you use inferior IT, you can expect Wile E. Coyote to win.

How has the IT industry changed?

The IT industry is constantly changing – it HAS to in order to stay ahead of the threat matrix and assimilate new technologies. The changes taking place are mostly not brand new, but some areas have been pushed faster along than their previous trajectory indicated – spurred on by the changes due to COVID.

ITFIRM.COM has always offered and recommended cloud services for data backups, and peripheral programs such as email, and strongly urge our clients to base their entire network operation in the cloud. In the past 5 years, we’ve seen an incredible leap into the cloud as the accessibility and security requirements of a workforce spread across many locations illuminated the cloud as the easiest and most reliable solution.

Typically, it’s a company’s ‘bean counters,’ the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) - the ‘bean counters’ who have an uneasy relationship with those urging investment in new technologies, whether from an internal IT Department or with any model of outsourced IT, especially if they are still using the outdated ‘Break/Fix’ (B/F) hourly rate IT model.

When a CFO has reconciled the total amount of scattered ‘Break/Fix’ billings they’ve been paying, they are more likely to recognize the overall cost savings of going with a top-notch IT firm, it makes them much more amenable to technological change, because much of it is already included in their monthly subscription fee, BUT: at first glance, the jump of placing all operations in the cloud was prohibitive.

Lastly, let’s look at the occasionally intangible cost benefits of working completely within the cloud, especially on these two main areas:

1: Capital expenses: Upgrading physical hardware every few years is a huge ongoing cost. With the cloud, the computers are simply terminals, not self-contained housing for programs and storage, therefore much cheaper to replace as they age.

2: Increased productivity: With the User Interfaces (UIs) inherent in cloud programs, an inordinate amount of time is saved by not continuously opening and closing different apps throughout the day. Programs you once had to find and open are just there – ready to go, and cloud programs do not bog down a computer by taxing its Hard Drive and RAM (Random Access Memory) limitations.

You don’t need to be brave to enjoy and profit from this Brave New World.