2023-09-25 06:30:09
The advent of 5G has revived a telecoms sector that had been moribund for many years. At the same time, the proliferation of internet applications used by companies is forcing them to invest massively in cybersecurity technologies. This context should provide new professional opportunities for engineers.
In 2023, after ten complicated years, the Telecoms sector has returned to growth. 5G, which has allowed operators to increase the average price of packages, is no stranger to this revival. Also, the number of young users has been increasing sharply in recent years.
Besides this, the IT sector continues its strong growth. The exponential proliferation of dematerialized services, for individuals and businesses alike, is forcing the latter to equip themselves accordingly, even though by 2023 one in two French businesses will have been the victim of a cyberattack. For companies, the processes of dematerialization of communications certainly constitute progress, but they also expose IT infrastructures to regular attacks. The demand for IT engineers, developers, and also IT security specialists will continue to grow in the coming years, knowing that young graduates remain attracted to these professions.
Moreover, engineering positions, in telecoms or IT, should see their starting salaries increase sharply in 2024. Here again, recruiters say they want to focus on recruitment of young engineers, while these two sectors recruited nearly 45,000 engineers this year. A windfall of jobs which remains very localized, since it is in the Paris region that almost half of the recruitments are carried out. In terms of remuneration, the telecommunications and IT sectors are extremely competitivewith the aim of attracting the best talents.
The role of cloud engineer, for example, should see salaries increase between 7 and 13% in 2024, for 70,000 euros upon hiring for engineers with at least 2 years of experience.
DevOps engineers, for their part, are also on a basis of 70,000 euros per year for an engineer with between 2 and 5 years of experiencewith salary increases of up to 15%.
Last example, cybersecurity professionals, who also see their salaries increase significantly, for a salary of 60,000 euros (2 to 5 years of experience.
These three examples clearly illustrate the race for talent that recruiters are engaged in in these sectors, which is driving salaries upwards. This is extremely relevant in the cybersecurity sector, where new threats that emerge regularly force companies to invest and recruit for relatively new positions. So, the Pentester functionwhose role is to test the security of a site by simulating attacks against it, is highly sought after, and many schools today train young engineers for these missions.
Likewise, the positions of CISO – responsible for information systems security – or cryptology specialists today attract many jobs, reserved for BAC+5 engineers.
For industry, the role of industrial cybersecurity engineer, who will primarily manage the security of industrial control systems, with all the sensitive and strategic aspects that this covers in certain sectors of activity, is a position where recruiters seek to attract the best talent for the design, deployment and administration of these systems, by offering attractive starting salaries, accompanied by regular increases.
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