Companies and entrepreneurs created tech jobs in Greater Nashville at a faster pace than the state and nation in the last five years — and will continue to hold that edge in the years ahead.
Those are two of the takeaways from the newly released annual analysis of the region’s tech scene from Middle Tennessee State University and the Greater Nashville Technology Council.
The report is a mile-marker of sorts in the tech council’s race to double the region’s tech workforce by 2025, to 92,000 people. The report’s findings echo the prevailing message from similar studies: Nashville has a relatively small but rapidly growing tech sector, and that’s before the full effect of major jobs announcements from companies such as Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) and this week’s news from global IT consulting firm Capgemini.
The report encompasses a 15-county area, comprised of the Nashville metropolitan statistical area as well as Montgomery County. (Some of the government-defined job categories included in the report entail non-tech roles as well as tech roles, it should be noted.)
The report counted 70,508 people in tech jobs across the region. It makes projections about growth into 2025, and details demographics and job postings for more than two dozen job categories.
