InfoTech Talent Trends 2025
InfoTech Talent Trends 2025 is out and we're not surprised these 6 top trends are significantly impacted by Org Behavior and Change Management. 👇
The bottom line: Ensure you don't have outdated leadership skills and invest in your talent!
• Only 15% of leaders feel like they have change-ready skills (Forbes, 2024)
• Only 20% of employees strongly agree that they trust the leadership of their organization (“Leadership & Management,” Gallup, 2024)
• 47% of CEOs do not feel ready for the pace of change technology will bring about (Accenture, 2024).
To overcome rapid changes in tech and business, leaders need to provide more than vision and insight, they need people focused solutions that build trust.
These trends highlight the need for leaders to be skilled change agents. Leaders with the capability to accurately assessing their organizations and teams and adapt before they are impacted. This requires an understanding of Org Behavior and Change Management.
People, Processes, Technology? Technology is rapidly changing processes and outpacing investments in employee skills. Why do employees feel out of touch with leaders?
• 47% of Gen Z workers believe chatbots provide better advice than their managers (Computerworld, 2024).
• 58% of business leaders are worried about keeping up with the pace of technology change (IT Pro, 2024).
• 52% of technology leaders believe there is a skills gap within their department (“Building Future-Forward Tech Teams,” Robert Half, 2024).
In 2025, risks associated with the cost of managing talent are the greatest threats and more than half of survey respondents reported that their biggest talent risks for 2025 are around cost, capability, or capacity.
Top 6 IT Talent Trends 2025
InfoTech Research Group has analyzed recent talent trends and narrowed them down to 6 areas of focus stating, "The traditional building blocks we’ve used to shape our current IT functions will not be sufficient to get organizations where they need to be. As our industry makes continuous shifts – shifts required to get us into a place of the future – we must evaluate what is missing and where to invest. We will have to reimagine the structures and talent processes, deliver on the vision IT employees have for the digital workplace experience, and explore new means of demonstrating organizational leadership."
Their report explores six trends that are "breathing new life into the core of IT talent":
IT Organization:
Workplace Economics & Risks
The Need to Restructure
IT Employees:
Generative AI on IT Talent
The New Employee Experience
IT Leaders:
The Path From CIO to CEO
The Changing Role of IT Management
Read the full InfoTech report here.
While there are some bombshell statistics, this report makes claims about talent shortages that we completely disagree with. Statistics show hundreds of thousands of layoffs the last few years in the tech field. Job postings are receiving thousands of applicants within hours and numerous conversations about the lack of jobs and issues with hiring practices can be found on LinkedIn. We believe the claims of talent shortages are lead mostly by schools, certification authorities, and tech boot camps who have a significant interest in bringing new candidates into the workforce.
The talent shortage is clearly at the leadership level. Issues presented by these statistics are solved by leaders skilled in organizational behavior and change management.
The role of the Leader is critical to navigating to the expedient changes technology is bringing to the business world. If your business is not steered by adaptive leadership, your organization may struggle to keep up with the pace of competition. ManaSec has covered Adaptive Leadership in a previous blog here.
Need help navigating the changing business environment? ManaSec is a skilled change agent and can provide insight and guidance that will take your business to the front of the pack. Please contact us to find out more.