How does the Southeast rank when it comes to global tech talent?
Raleigh-Durham (#12), Atlanta (#13), Charlotte (#24), and South Florida (#25) all ranked in a new Scoring Tech Talent report, which highlights just how quickly artificial intelligence has impacted labor markets across the globe.
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A new report out from CBRE ranks four metro areas in the Southeast in the top 25 markets in the world for tech talent.
Raleigh-Durham (#12), Atlanta (#13), Charlotte (#24), and South Florida (#25) all ranked in a new Scoring Tech Talent report, which highlights just how quickly artificial intelligence has impacted labor markets across the globe.
If you isolate just US companies, Raleigh-Durham and Atlanta rank in the top 10 places for tech talent currently in the country. Tampa, Nashville, and Jacksonville also ranked in the top 50 list.
Tech Talent In The South
What does that look like on the ground in the Southeast?
Raleigh-Durham added 10,220 tech-related jobs, growing by 7.2%, between 2021 and 2024. Atlanta added 6,610 tech talent jobs between 2021 and 2024, growing by 5.2%, over that same time.
The city also produced 10,303 tech degree graduates in 2023, the sixth-highest total in North America and marking a growth of 18.6% from 2020-2023. Atlanta’s own Georgia Tech also produced the fourth highest number of undergraduates with an AI and computer science background, behind only Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Stanford.
In fact, Atlanta’s AI-specialty talent has increased by 75% over the past year, according to the report.
Christian Devlin, Senior Vice President of CBRE’s Technology and Media Practice, told Hypepotamus that this shows that “Atlanta is both producing and attracting a tremendous amount of AI talent.”
But it is not just straight AI companies that are benefiting from the increased local talent pool. Devlin pointed out that Atlanta’s other strong sectors, including robotics, deep tech, climate tech, and fintech, are benefiting from hiring AI professionals.
Now, no report can capture all the changes happening across a technology ecosystem. But the CBRE report highlights just how quickly the talent pool is being transformed by AI, pointing out that “demand for computer and information systems managers that are foundational for AI development accounted for 83% of U.S. tech talent job growth last year.”
Devlin added that “time will tell” just how much AI talent shifts will impact the sheer numbers of new hires and, of course, what it means for the office space market in fast-growing areas like Atlanta.
But the report also serves as a reality check for employers.
“The pace of play is quite fast” both nationally and locally, Decline added. “I hope that people in the ecosystem capitalize on these opportunities sooner rather than later. Things are going to move fast.”
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