Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/27/2010 -- The IT industry, which has shed around 215,000 employees since January 2009, has hired 30,200 people since January this year. The hiring represents an increase in the IT industry’s workforce by 0.5 percent.

The total number of people employed in the tech industry in June 2010 stood at 5.78 million. The data has been gathered by TechAmerica Foundation, an industry group which keeps track of the IT workforce. Another IT research firm, Computer Economics says that the workers being hired could be doing non-IT jobs in those firms such as sales and distribution. A survey of 600 IT hiring managers conducted by the IT job search site Dice revealed that 71 percent of them are planning to hire more employees in the second half of the year.

The IT industry showed job growth in three of the four tech sectors according to data gathered by the TechAmerica Foundation. Employment in the tech manufacturing sector went up by 9,100 jobs, an increase of 0.7 percent. The software services sector added 14,200 jobs and 29,700 jobs were added to the tech services sector.

Asked about the employment situation in the tech industry, A. Harrison Barnes, CEO of InformationTechnologyCrossing, says “In spite of the media stories over IT outsourcing and H1B visa holders taking over American jobs, there are still high paying jobs in the field.” InformationTechnologyCrossing is a job aggregator site that focuses on jobs in the information technology sector. The site has been able to find over 43,000 jobs for the sector.