The decline in jobs reverses the 205,000 new jobs created in August, according to the report.
Overall this year, there has been a net growth of IT jobs of about 17,000 positions.
“Macro [trends point] toward sustained demand for tech talent,” Tim Herbert, CompTIA’s senior vice president of research and market intelligence, told WSJ in a statement.
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