IT Talent Trends 2025

High stakes, higher expectations. IT talent holds the key.

IT talent has taken center stage as the fast-changing landscape upends the status quo. Traditional talent strategies will be no match for the new technologies, expectations, and generations that are reshaping the IT workplace. To successfully deliver on the vision of IT’s exponential future, IT leaders must reimagine talent processes, organizational structures, and their own notions of what it takes to lead IT.

In this year’s IT Talent Trends report, we explore six key trends that promise to topple traditional IT talent building blocks and transform the IT workforce in 2025.

Six key trends will impact IT leadership in 2025

Based on the results of our IT Talent Trends 2025 survey, this report examines six key trends in IT talent that will have an exponential impact on IT’s ability to drive value for their organizations.

1. Workplace Economics and Risk

Costs. Capabilities. Capacity. The risks no IT leader can avoid when it comes to talent.
IT leaders must prepare for a new list of concerns: escalating costs for hiring and retention, the need for continuous upskilling, and a growing demand for capacity that often exceeds availability.

2. The Need to Restructure

Evolving roles demand an overhaul of the IT org chart.
The IT org structures that brought us this far won’t take organizations into the future. It’s time for a bold rethink of outdated org charts and hierarchies.

3. Generative AI on IT Talent

Enable AI-enabled progress and productivity.
Today’s IT employees understand the potential of generative AI, often better than leadership. Forward-thinking IT leaders will empower them to harness this technology.

4. The New Employee Experience

The new employee experience is digital-centric.
IT leaders must now support an employee experience that goes beyond people and place. Flexibility, technology, and a seamless digital environment now play a more significant role in employee satisfaction than office space ever could.

5. The Path from CIO to CEO

Technology is now the key to the corner office.
From CIO to CEO – a path once unimaginable is now within reach. As technology increasingly drives business operations and customer value, ready or not, CIOs are now poised to step into the organization’s top leadership role.

6. The Changing Role of IT Management

IT’s path is paved with great expectations.
What was once a clear path to success is now a complex journey for IT managers, with mounting demands from the organization and employees alike. IT leaders will need new skills and strategies to navigate the unpredictable road ahead.