Best Places to Work in IT 2023

Top salaries, benefits, good growth rate, and job satisfaction makes an organization a great place to work in. Not only having this but getting good opportunities plays an integral part in employees’ retain consistency on their jobs.

Time to Shine

The IT sector always needs talented, hard-working, and diversified employees. IT professionals have been unprecedented over the past year amid strong demand for new skills and top talent. Companies always seem in search of much-needed skills in data science, cyber security, software development, and other IT areas. No matter, whether it is from compensation, career, training, flexible work options, or career growth. Organizations always seem interested in hiring a skilled IT workforce to help advance digital business is going to be in a good position in order to boost economic growth.

Hence, after Covid-19, hybrid work arrangements are helping align the needs of the companies and employees. Companies have a broader vision and a broader pool of talent. As the IT industry is constantly boosting, however, this change is very essential. Pressures from the pandemic era have accelerated digital transformation across all industries. Accelerating technology investments and positioning IT as a crucial business enabler. However, leadership teams are under pressure to maintain top performers’ high levels of motivation and engagement as a result.

Whereas, “IT can no longer be viewed as just a function or department. We are really the backbone and the operating system of the enterprise,” says Jo Abernathy, CIO at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. The company earned the name of the No-1 large company spot on Computerworld’s 2023 best places to operate in IT list. “Technology isn’t used just to run the business but to re imagine it”.

Moreover, almost every company is becoming more digitally driven, there’s a greater place for IT creativity. “IT is an amazing melting pot of many skill sets coming in new ways and is constantly being reinvented”, says Debbi Peterson, senior vice president of people and culture with Metro Star.

In addition, I think that leads to a lot more autonomy. You can be more creative and because of that, inside of IT, you are willing to see folks take on many more types of roles than they would in a different sector”.

According to the latest IT survey, the best places to work in the IT sector, IT jobs, and salaries are increasing as a result of technology being the center of modern business. Whereas, the overall number of IT employees is up to 8% from the previous year. However, with a motive increase of 17% at midsize businesses.

Hence, across the board companies are adding full-time IT employees. Almost 72% of the respondents have already expanded their IT ranks over the past three years, by 41% on average.

Top 10: IT Growth

	Large Companies	Midsize Companies	Small Companies
1	ADM	Guardant Health	Cloud for Good
2	Baptist Health	Tokyo Electron US Holdings, Inc.	Resultant
3	IT@Johns Hopkins	Janney Montgomery Scott LLC	Axxess
4	Align Technology	Credit Acceptance	Complete Technology Services
5	Fiege Logistik Stifung GmbH	Plante Moran, PLLC	Edafio Technology Partners
6	Navy Federal Credit Union	KnowBe4	TMNA Services, LLC (TMNAS)
7	Cedars-Sinai	FINRA	Nethouse Sverige AB
8	Corewell Health	DriveTime	MetroStar
9	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	Planned Systems International, Inc.	Nitel
10	Zebra Technologies Corporation	Miami University	Dataprise

On average 92% of IT employees got a salary bump in 2022, with salary cuts and freezes nearly nonexistent.

Top 10: Benefits

	Large Companies	Midsize Companies	Small Companies
1	Johnson & Johnson	Avanade	MetroStar
2	VMware	Tokyo Electron US Holdings, Inc.	Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company
3	Genentech	OCLC, Inc.	Dataprise
4	Zimmer Biomet	Guardant Health	Avaap
5	Oshkosh Corporation	Extreme Networks	TMNA Services, LLC (TMNAS)
6	CDW	Janney Montgomery Scott LLC	T-Rex Solutions, LLC
7	Navy Federal Credit Union	CME Group	Resultant
8	RSM US LLP	FINRA	Nethouse Sverige AB
9	Ceridian HCM Inc.	VyStar Credit Union	Cloud for Good
10	Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina	Plante Moran, PLLC	Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota

Some organizations feel that the hybrid model provides a better balance and great advantages for professional development.

Top 10: Hybrid Work

	Large Companies	Midsize Companies	Small Companies
1	VMware	Plante Moran, PLLC	Resultant
2	Cedars-Sinai	Avanade	Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
3	Oshkosh Corporation	FINRA	MetroStar
4	Atrium Health	Extreme Networks	TMNA Services, LLC (TMNAS)
5	Corewell Health	KnowBe4	Ostfriesische Tee Gesellschaft GmbH
6	Fannie Mae	DriveTime	T-Rex Solutions, LLC
7	Informatica	Janney Montgomery Scott LLC	Dataprise
8	RSM US LLP	Genesis HealthCare System	Nethouse Sverige AB
9	University of Notre Dame	Tokyo Electron US Holdings, Inc.	Edafio
10	Aflac	OCLC, Inc.	Amerisure

One of the most important elements for the long-term health of APL is to create and sustain a culture of lifelong learning and discovery, says Michael Misumi APL’s CIO.

Top 10: Career Development

	Large Companies	Midsize Companies	Small Companies
1	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	Plante Moran, PLLC	TMNA Services, LLC (TMNAS)
2	Genentech	VyStar Credit Union	Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company
3	Zebra Technologies Corporation	FINRA	Ostfriesische Tee Gesellschaft GmbH
4	Red Hat	KnowBe4	Nethouse Sverige AB
5	Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta	National Information Solutions Cooperative	MetroStar
6	RSM US LLP	Extreme Networks	Edafio Technology Partners
7	Navy Federal Credit Union	Planned Systems International, Inc.	Dataprise
8	University of Notre Dame	Tokyo Electron US Holdings, Inc.	Avaap
9	Baptist Health	Avanade	T-Rex Solutions, LLC
10	The Hartford	American Fidelity	Axon Active Vietnam Co., Ltd.