The U.S. labor report this month was an original one, overstated by Census hiring, and met with mostly unenthusiastic reviews.

But private analyst reports on IT hiring are assorted, with one group reporting brawny hiring and the other saying it was flat.

Tech Serve Alliance had an optimistic sight, reporting a gain of 7,300 IT jobs to about 3.9 million in May, reflecting a stable gain since the start of this year. The Alexandria, Va.-based group symbolize IT services firms, customers, advisors and suppliers.

In a declaration, TechServe Alliance CEO Mark Roberts said "the IT division remains on a stable growth trajectory."

IT personnel analyst firm Foote Partners LLC in Vero Beach, Fla., had a different appraisal of the IT jobs market. Foote, which looks specially at what it typify as five bellwether IT job segments, showed a net loss of 100 IT-related jobs in May.

In general, the national payroll grew by 431,000 workers, but that incorporated the hiring of 411,000 provisional Census employees, according to government figures.

U.S. government service group do not competition IT occupation titles totally, and the various groups and analysts that path IT hiring can utilize a dissimilar mix of work of data to get there at their month-to month assessment.