No career is perfect: IT is the champion in employment and Medicine in temporality

When choosing which career to pursue, students’ thematic preferences have more weight, and they tend to leave aside determining aspects for the future, such as the professional opportunities offered by that career or the salaries paid in them. The study ‘The employability of young people in Spain 2024’, prepared by the Knowledge and Development Foundation, sheds light on the careers with the greatest success in job placement and the working conditions that recent graduates will have to face.

IT leads in employability. The data from the study indicate that, four years after graduating, 86.97% of Computer Science graduates are contributing to Social Security, positioning it as the career with the highest employability rate.

This is followed by the field of Health and Social Services, with careers such as Medicine and Nursing reaching an insertion rate of 83.80%. In contrast, degrees in Social Sciences, Journalism and Documentation register one of the lowest job placement rates, with 70.43%, only surpassed by Arts and Humanities, which is the degree with the greatest difficulties in finding a job after finishing its studies. training, with 63.83%.

Medicine stands out for its salaries. According to the report of the Knowledge and Development Foundationuniversity graduates contribute an average of 29,559 euros per year. In careers such as Computer Science, 64.17% of graduates earn an annual salary above that average, while in Health and Social Services (medicine) careers, the percentage of graduates with salaries greater than 30,000 euros is 66. 71%, making Medicine the best paid career with an average annual contribution base of 39,775 euros.

Careers best valued in terms of job placement and salary. Source: CYD Foundation

At the opposite pole, degrees in Services, Tourism and Hospitality are the areas with the lowest salaries, in which 53.75% of graduates earn less than 24,000 euros per year. However, in terms of contribution by field, Conservation and Restoration of art and archeology are the lowest paid degrees, with an average annual contribution base of 20,772 euros and 21,079 euros respectively.

Worst valued careers in terms of job placement and salary Source: CYD Foundation

What counts is stability. In terms of stability in the type of contracts signed by graduates of each degree, the reading varies slightly. For example, although the field of IT is the second best paid behind Medicine, the difference in terms of temporality is abysmal.

96.96% of contracts signed by Computer Science graduates are full-time and 92% of them are indefinite. However, Medicine is one of the most temporary careers, with a surprising 98% of temporary contracts among recent graduates, with 99.22% of them full-time.

Privatization of education has a cost. Another relevant fact that stands out in the study is the difference in job placement and remuneration between graduates from public and private universities. The data indicates that those who study in private institutions tend to have higher affiliation rates as self-employed (7.45%) and a higher annual contribution base of approximately 3,400 euros compared to those in public universities (6.72%). .

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