No.3736
IT Staffing Services Market in Japan: Key Research Findings 2025
IT Staffing Service Market Size (4 Markets in Total) increased by 9.1% YoY in FY2023 to 1,361.5 Billion Yen
Yano Research Institute (the President, Takashi Mizukoshi) surveyed the IT staffing market in Japan, and found out the market trends by service, trends of market players, and future perspectives.
Market Overview
In this research, the market size of IT staffing services, i.e., IT professional temporary staffing services, IT professional recruitment services, IT professional direct sourcing services, and IT freelancer matching services, based on the service provider revenue, was estimated at 1,361.5 billion yen in FY2023, up 9.1% year on year.
As companies became more eager for digital transformation and digitalization, the demand for IT specialists with digital skills and knowledge grew, intensifying the competition for talent, which boosted the market for IT staffing services used by companies to acquire/hire IT professionals. Due to the increased opportunities for the services to be provided, the IT staffing services market is on an expanding trend.
Noteworthy Topics
Demand for IT Freelancer Matching Services Grows as Companies Increase Hiring of Freelancers
As the IT skills shortage continues, companies in need of IT professionals cannot hire enough of them if they limit themselves to full-time employment. As more IT professionals with more than a certain level of skills become freelancers, more companies are hiring freelance IT professionals.
This increases the need of companies for IT freelancer matching services, which provide matching between freelance IT professionals and corporate IT demanders. The number of corporate users of these services is steadily increasing, as they see these services as a new method of hiring IT professionals.
Future Outlook
The IT staffing services market size (four markets in total) is projected to increase by 7.8% year on year to 1,467.8 billion yen in FY2024.
As companies continue to promote digital transformation while experiencing a shortage of IT professionals, IT staffing services are expected to remain in high demand. Therefore, the four markets (IT professional temporary staffing services, IT professional recruitment services, IT professional direct sourcing services, and IT freelancer matching services) are expected to continue to grow steadily.
Research Outline
2.Research Object： IT professional temporary staffing service providers, IT professional recruitment service providers, direct sourcing service providers, freelancer matching service providers
3.Research Methogology： Face-to-face interviews by expert researchers (including online), surveys via telephone & email, and literature search
IT Staffing Services Market
The IT Staffing services market in this research includes 1) IT professional (IT engineer) temporary staffing services, 2) IT professional recruitment services, 3) IT professional direct sourcing services, and 4) IT freelancer matching services. Market size has been calculated based on service provider revenues.
IT professionals in this research include individuals whose position is assigned to work related to information technology broadly defined, such as systems engineers, programmers, network engineers, etc., who develop, implement, and/or manage computer systems and networks (regardless of skill level or specialty), digital technology and data analytics specialists (data analysts, data scientists, AI engineers, etc.), IT systems architects, digital transformation project leaders/managers, business project designers, web designers, and digital creatives.
1) The market for IT professional temporary staffing services refers to the market for the temporary employment of individuals specializing in information processing and telecommunications. The targeted areas of work are the entire field of IT, software, and information processing, which includes the development of information systems (work systems and applications, cloud, database, websites, etc.) and IT infrastructure (network/server consulting, design, construction, operation, and maintenance), regardless of knowledge specialization and skill level. Individuals working with AI and other innovative IT & digital technologies and data analytics (data scientists, AI engineers) are also included.
2) The IT professional recruitment services market refers to the market for recruiting individuals who specialize in information processing and telecommunications (e.g., IT/systems engineers, etc.,) AI and other latest technologies (e.g. data scientists, AI engineers, etc.,) and digital transformation project leaders/managers, etc.
3) The IT professional direct sourcing market refers to the market for the direct sourcing of individuals who specialize in information technology in a broad sense, such as IT/systems engineers in information processing and telecommunications, data scientists and AI engineers, etc. who work with AI and other emerging technologies, as well as digital transformation project leaders, web designers/digital creators, etc. This market does not include the general IT professional recruitment services.
4) The IT freelancer matching service market refers to the market for the service of matching between companies in need of freelance IT specialists and IT freelancers, as defined in this research.
＜Products and Services in the Market＞
IT professional temporary staffing service, IT professional recruitment service, IT professional direct sourcing, IT freelancer matching service.
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