The lack of IT specialists in German offices and authorities will become even worse. According to a study published by the management consultancy McKinsey on Wednesday, the public sector in Germany will lack around 140,000 IT specialists by 2030. Since the previous calculation from 2019, the gap has increased by 15 percent. The authors warn that the important digitization of public administration could come to a standstill.


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The projections are based on the current rate of recruitment and the number of those retiring in the coming years. According to the study, the public sector has a total of 5.1 million employees, of whom more than 1.5 million will retire by 2030 for reasons of age. There is already a gap of 39,000 experts, which will more than triple by 2030. “Against the background of the large digitization programs of the federal and state governments, the estimate of the staff gap can still be considered conservative,” said Julia Klier, co-author of the study. This means, among other things, the e-file and the online access law, which is intended to digitize the driver’s license application, for example. According to Klier, such projects should continue to drive the need for specialists.

The aspect of IT security could also become a problem: German federal ministries, for example, are already finding it increasingly difficult to recruit staff to defend against digital threats, as can be seen from a response from the federal government to a parliamentary question. On average, every fifth position in the IT security area is currently vacant, a deterioration compared to the previous year.

In order to deal with the shortage of skilled workers, authorities and offices would have to speed up their recruitment processes, according to the study. However, there were not enough young people from the IT courses to meet the demand. It is therefore important to train your own staff. There is a lot of catching up to do here.

“We have been warning for ages about the ever-increasing shortage of skilled workers, especially in the IT sector,” said Ulrich Silberbach, federal chairman of the civil servants’ association dbb. The federal government is already paying more in professions where the shortage of skilled workers is particularly serious. But that alone is not enough. The federal, state and local governments would have to pay better wages and make working conditions more attractive. And even if encrusted structures slow down digitization projects, that deters the next generation.


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