No.2913
01/28/2022

Digital-Engineer HR Services Market in Japan: Key Research Findings 2022

Digital-Engineer HR Services Market Size (Total of 3 Markets) in FY2020 Rose by 6.5% on YoY to 967.8 Billion Yen

Yano Research Institute (the President, Takashi Mizukoshi) carried out a research on the markets of human resources (HR) development & training services, temporary staffing services, and recruitment services specific to digital engineers, and found out the market trend by category, trends of market players, and future perspectives.


Transition and Forecast of Digital-Engineer HR Services Market Size (Total of 3 Markets)
Transition and Forecast of Digital-Engineer HR Services Market Size (Total of 3 Markets)

Market Overview

The FY2020 digital-engineer HR services market size which is the total size of three HR markets specific to digital engineers (i.e. HR development & training services, temporary staffing services, and recruitment services) was estimated to have risen by 6.5% on a YoY basis to 967.8 billion yen.

In recent years, the necessity to utilize IT and digital technologies for improvement of work processes and efficiency and for business reform has increased the demand for skilled personnel in IT and digital technologies, which has led to the relevant market expansion.

In FY2020, the market for human resource development and training services in the IT and digital fields declined due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the growth of recruitment and temporary staffing services in these fields have slowed down, but the market has continued expanding, supported by strong demand for IT and digital engineers.

Noteworthy Topics

Trend of Service Demand by Field in COVID-19 Crisis

As training styles have established in the COVID-19 crisis, the market of HR development and training services for digital engineers has less negatively affected than in FY2020, and because digital shift in products and services and further digital transformation in business management likely to be in progress, the market is projected to show steady growth for the future.

As the demand for digital engineers recovering since the latter half of FY2020, and as lack of digital and IT personnel seemingly continues, the market of digital engineer temporary staffing services is expected to expand once again.

The market of digital-engineer recruiting services is forecasted to expand for future, because it has kept on growing even in the COVID-19 calamity, against the backdrop of the necessity of utilizing IT and digital technologies for improvement of work processes and efficiency, and for business reform, in addition to the next-generation telecommunication technologies widespread, and to the advent of a digital society due to pervasive use of IoT.

Future Outlook

The market of HR services for digital engineers in FY2021 is projected to rise by 11.2% to 1,075.8 billion yen.

In FY2021, the company expects to see upturn and a significant growth from holding back of investment in human resource development, education, and recruitment in the pandemic crisis in FY2020, and it expects to see solid growth in all areas of training, temporary staffing, and recruitment in the IT and digital HR fields.

Research Outline

1.Research Period: October and December 2021
2.Research Object: IT & digital engineer development and training service providers, IT & digital engineer temporary staffing services, IT & digital engineer recruitment service providers, etc.
3.Research Methogology: Face-to-face interviews by the expert researchers, surveys via telephone, FAX, and email, and literature search

Digital-Engineer HR Services Market

The digital-engineer HR services market in this research refers to: 1) digital-engineer HR development & training service market, 2) digital-engineer temporary staffing service market, and 3) digital-engineer recruitment service market. Digital engineers and IT/Digital HR in this research refer to broadly-interpreted IT and digital personnel dealing with IT or telecommunications, programmers and system engineers (SEs) who construct, operate and implement the systems (regardless of skill levels and IT categories), the specialists of digital technologies and data analysis (i.e. data scientists, AI engineers,) system architects, DX project leaders (project producers,) and project planners (business designers.)

1) The digital-engineer HR development & training service market refers to the market of education and training service (based on corporate contract) that provide broadly-interpreted educational and training services for obtaining knowledge and skills of IT and digital technologies regardless of the level or specialty. For example, education of programmers and SEs, learning of skills on websites, information processing, PC operation, etc., and training for being a specialist of digital technologies and data analysis (i.e. data scientists, AI engineers), DX promoting leaders (producers), project-planning personnel (business designers), etc.

2) The digital-engineer temporary staffing service market refers to the market of temporary staffing services specific to IT tech people or IT engineers or engineers of information processing and on telecommunications. The specialty of technologies and knowledge and the skill levels do not matter. The targeted areas of work are IT, software and information processing as a whole, such as information systems-related (development of enterprise systems, applications, cloud, websites, etc., building of database), and IT infrastructure-related (designing, building, operation, maintenance of, and consultation regarding network/servers). In addition, personnel that can deal with AI and other state-of-the-art IT/digital technological jobs (e.g. data scientists, AI engineers, etc.) are also included.

3) The digital-engineer recruitment service market refers to the market of recruiting IT engineers including personnel for information processing and telecommunications, for dealing with AI and other state-of-the-art IT and digital technological (e.g. data scientists, AI engineers, etc.) and DX promoting leaders, etc.  

<Products and Services in the Market>

Digital-engineer training services, digital-engineer temporary staffing services, digital-engineer recruitment services

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