U.S. employers cut 142,000 jobs in September, marking the fifth month of IT job losses since January, reports Wall Street Journal, citing numbers from IT industry trade group CompTIA.
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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