The information and communications technology (ICT) professionals in Spain already account for 4.9% of national employment, with more than 1.06 million specialists. This figure reinforces the network of digital professions and consolidates Spain as one of the reference markets for technological talent within Europe.
According to a report by Mobile World Capital Barcelona published this Wednesday, the volume of ICT professionals has increased by 71.9% since 2016, advancing at a pace 3.6 times higher than that of the overall labor market, which in that same period grew by only 19.9%.
The document details that ICT sector companies group 51.6% of digital specialists. However, these profiles have expanded strongly into other areas, such as business services (11.3%), engineering and construction (5.8%), or financial activities (4.6%).
The evolution of talent is also reflected in demand, which reached 282,367 vacancies in 2025, representing an increase of 9.4% compared with the previous year.
The report emphasizes that the market behaves differently depending on professional experience. While job offers for senior profiles have grown by 15.4% and those for intermediate level by 9.3%, opportunities aimed at junior professionals have decreased by 25.2%.
By geographical areas, Madrid and Barcelona concentrate the largest hubs of digital talent, both in terms of number of professionals and job offers, although with differentiated characteristics.
Madrid brings together 208,152 digital professionals and 74,236 job offers, compared with Barcelona, which has 135,890 specialists and 37,380 vacancies. As for salaries, Barcelona records an average of 51,000 euros per year, above Madrid’s 48,700 euros.
The 'top 5' of Spanish cities with the most digital professionals is completed by Valencia (25,280), Seville (18,859), and Bilbao (15,546).
The study highlights that the profiles with the highest number of active professionals and offers are those in web development, application development, and digital marketing. However, emerging specializations are the ones showing the greatest tension between supply and demand.
Cybersecurity, with 3.5 professionals available per vacancy, artificial intelligence, with 3.4, and 5G, with 2.6, are among the areas with the greatest imbalance, all of them with fewer than four professionals per advertised position. In fields such as 3D printing, the pressure is even higher, with only 1.5 professionals per offer.
The report indicates that specialization and market tension are also reflected in salaries. The average salary of digital professionals stands at 45,200 euros per year, while cybersecurity and artificial intelligence profiles are placed above it, at 53,000 and 50,500 euros, respectively.
In this scenario, Jordi Arrufí, director of the digital talent area at Mobile World Capital Barcelona, has pointed out that the continued growth of ICT professionals, together with the increase in demand and pressure on certain specializations, shows the need to keep driving the training and development of talent capable of responding to the technological evolution of the economy.