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New York State Information Technology Workforce Skills Assessment Statewide Survey Results

Executive Summary

Introduction

New York State IT Workforce and Leadership Profiles

Skill Proficiency Ratings

Training Demand

IT Competency Framework

Three-year IT Skills Forecast

Gap Analysis

Workforce Development Considerations

Conclusions and Future Considerations

Appendix A: Methodology

Appendix B: Project Sponsors and Participants

Appendix C: Skill Definitions

Appendix D: Employee Survey Questions

Appendix E: Data Tables


Appendix E: Data Tables

Table E14. Similarities and differences in steady state forecast across agency size groups

Competency Area
 
At least 50 percent of CIOs in all agency size groups chose forecast for these skills
 
Small
(at least 50 percent of CIOs)
 
Medium
(at least 50 percent of CIOs)
 
Large
(at least 50 percent of CIOs)
 
Management
 
  • Internal controls
  • Managing agency staff
 
  • IT asset management
  • Financial management
  • IT procurement
 
  • IT procurement
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • IT strategic planning
  • Planning & evaluation
  • Leadership
  • Negotiation & conflict resolution
  • Supervisory skills
  • Customer service
 
  • Financial management
  • Negotiation & conflict resolution
  • Supervisory skills
  • Customer service
 
Infrastructure
 
  • Hardware & maintenance support
 
  • Principles of operating systems
  • Backup & recovery
 
  • Principles of operating systems
  • Backup & recovery
  • Wide Area Networks (WAN)
 
  • Telephone/ PBX
  • Windows network operating systems
  • Windows operating systems
  • Open system server administration
  • Technology training activities
 
Web computing
 
  
  • Microsoft Access
 
  • Microsoft Access
  • Java
  • Microsoft SQL
 
Systems and databases
 
 
  • Database design & development principles
  • Quality assurance
  • Testing & evaluation
  • Principles of programming
 
 
  • Principles of programming
  • Structured system analysis & design principles
 
Technical support services
 
  • Help desk activities
 
  • Support for desktop applications
 
  • Call center activities
 
  • Support for desktop applications
 
Management and use of information as an asset
 
    
Legacy technologies