Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/07/2010 -- Hiring in the technology sector remains weak, dashing hopes that highly skilled workers should have no problems getting and keeping jobs.

The unemployment rate for computer programmers, systems analysts and even computer scientists is around 6 percent. And although, that is low compared to the national average of 9.6 percent and higher in some industries, it is high compared to some other white-collar professions. The two main reasons for this situation are: outsourcing of even high-end work and layoffs in Silicon Valley. This has put several people with multiple degrees in the job market competing for jobs, most of which can be outsourced.

Another factor that people in these tech professions have to face is the fact of underemployment. There are over 9 million Americans working part-time according to the latest jobs report. By hiring part-time workers, employers do not have to offer several benefits which they would have to give to full-time employees. The underemployment rate for August was 18.6 percent, according to Gallup.

But there are thousands of jobs in the information technology sector according to A. Harrison Barnes, CEO of InformationTechnologyCrossing, which is a job aggregator site that specializes in finding jobs related to the IT field. “There are small and medium sized IT firms who have a hard time finding qualified workers.” The site has been able to find over 10,000 jobs in the last two days alone, with jobs ranging from database administrators to systems architects.