ICT Overview
ICT Industry in Northern Ireland
The ICT (information & communications technology)
industry in Northern Ireland is on the move. Everybody knows
that the industry worldwide suffered a correction shortly after
2000 - not everyone knows that the industry has bounced back
and that Northern Ireland's ICT industry now employs more
people than it ever has before. Over the past couple of years,
employment in the industry has been growing by 14% per annum,
and indications are that this is set to rise further.
Northern Ireland continues to punch well above its weight in
attracting inward investment from international companies in
the face of ever increasing competition from other regions, as
demonstrated by the recent investments by Citigroup and Polaris
in establishing software development centres in Belfast.
Indigenous industry is also prospering, fuelled by the growing
number of companies successfully targeting markets outside
Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland technology companies are at the heart of
almost everything we do in our daily lives. If you send a text,
use the internet on your mobile phone, watch DVDs or press the
interactive button on your TV chances are you will be using
technology developed locally.
Technology pervades all activities from banking to leisure,
farming to retail, sports to industry and Northern Ireland
companies provide software to support all of these activities,
and almost all of the companies in the sector operate globally
so you will be working with developers and customers from all
over the world.
Now's the time to get the skills needed to play a part in this
exciting and developing industry.
Read more about one of Northern Ireland's growing
companies, ICS Computing...
