Men represent as many as 84 % employees with an ICT education

In Slovenia, the percentage is even higher, and even the trends do not indicate that anything could significantly change in the future.

In 2022, 3.0 million people with ICT education were employed in the EU, which is 6.7 million more than than in 2021 (2.8 million). Men represented 84.4 % (2.5 million) of employees with education in the field of ICT, which is 7.1 % more than than the year before (2.4 million in 2021), while women represented 15.6 % (463,100) employees, which is 4.4 % more as in 2021 (443,400).

As for EU members, Slovenia (93.0 %), Latvia (91.0 %), Poland (90.3 %), Czechia (89.9 %), Belgium (88.7 %) and Slovakia (88.5 %) the largest share of men in the total number of employees with education in the field of ICT.

Regarding female employees with ICT education, the highest shares were recorded in Bulgaria (31.5 %), Denmark (31.3 %), Cyprus (30.2 %) and Romania (29.9 %) .

Bar chart: Employed people with an ICT education by sex, %, 2022

The majority of employees with an ICT background are young

In the EU in 2022, there were more than two thirds (67.8 %) of employees with an ICT education aged between 15 and 34, and 32.2 % between 35 and 74 years.

Young people between the ages of 15 and 34 represent the majority of ICT-educated working people in almost all EU member states, with the largest share in Slovakia (83.8 %), Romania (82.4 %), on Croatia (79.3 %), Malta (78.4 %). ), Hungary, Poland (both 76.7 %) and Portugal (76.1 %).

The highest percentages of people aged 35 to 74 with an ICT education in the EU were in Finland (47.4 %), Ireland (43.7 %) and Bulgaria (40.4 %).