Table 6.
Summarized demand level by competency and industry.
| Individual competency | Associated category | All |
IT in IT Sector |
IT in Non-IT Sector |
t | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||||
| Lifelong learning | Professional skills .. | 3.85 | 0.90 | 3.79 | 0.88 | 3.94 | 0.92 | −1.377 | .170 |
| Personal attitude | Professional skills .. | 3.83 | 0.83 | 3.83 | 0.81 | 3.83 | 0.87 | −.040 | .968 |
| Dependability | Professional skills .. | 3.79 | 0.96 | 3.79 | 0.95 | 3.79 | 0.99 | −.024 | .981 |
| Teamwork | Professional skills .. | 3.79 | 0.86 | 3.75 | 0.87 | 3.86 | 0.84 | −1.064 | .289 |
| IT foundations | Professional skills .. | 3.76 | 0.81 | 3.78 | 0.79 | 3.74 | 0.86 | .418 | .677 |
| General comm.. | Professional skills .. | 3.70 | 0.86 | 3.71 | 0.84 | 3.70 | 0.89 | .117 | .907 |
| Adaptability | Professional skills .. | 3.69 | 0.86 | 3.63 | 0.85 | 3.78 | 0.87 | −1.382 | .168 |
| Critical thinking | Professional skills .. | 3.67 | 0.87 | 3.67 | 0.84 | 3.67 | 0.90 | −.019 | .985 |
| Innovative | Professional skills .. | 3.64 | 0.90 | 3.61 | 0.88 | 3.70 | 0.94 | −.770 | .442 |
| Basic IT for works | IT Technical | 3.58 | 0.85 | 3.54 | 0.88 | 3.64 | 0.82 | −.856 | .393 |
| Problem solving | Professional skills .. | 3.55 | 0.85 | 3.58 | 0.84 | 3.49 | 0.86 | .854 | .394 |
| IT Law and ethics | Professional skills .. | 3.47 | 0.95 | 3.43 | 0.95 | 3.54 | 0.95 | −.903 | .367 |
| Math and science | Professional skills .. | 3.41 | 0.89 | 3.46 | 0.85 | 3.32 | 0.94 | 1.177 | .240 |
| Database | IT Technical | 3.37 | 0.88 | 3.39 | 0.86 | 3.35 | 0.92 | .294 | .769 |
| English for IT | IT Technical | 3.34 | 0.82 | 3.40 | 0.80 | 3.25 | 0.84 | 1.487 | .138 |
| Software app.. | IT Technical | 3.30 | 0.91 | 3.27 | 0.91 | 3.34 | 0.92 | −.529 | .597 |
| Project manage.. | IT management and .. | 3.29 | 0.94 | 3.34 | 0.92 | 3.22 | 0.97 | 1.002 | .317 |
| Digital comm.. | IT management and .. | 3.27 | 0.97 | 3.20 | 0.92 | 3.38 | 1.02 | −1.469 | .143 |
| IT support | IT management and .. | 3.19 | 0.90 | 3.16 | 0.86 | 3.24 | 0.95 | −.677 | .499 |
| Mobile tech.. | IT Technical | 3.19 | 0.95 | 3.18 | 0.95 | 3.22 | 0.94 | −.319 | .750 |
| Business found.. | IT management and .. | 3.17 | 0.98 | 3.19 | 1.02 | 3.14 | 0.92 | .422 | .673 |
| Hardware/Network | IT Technical | 3.13 | 0.90 | 3.06 | 0.93 | 3.25 | 0.84 | −1.736 | .084 |
| Digital Marketing | IT management and .. | 3.09 | 0.97 | 3.06 | 0.96 | 3.14 | 0.99 | −.652 | .515 |
| IT risk management | IT management and .. | 3.05 | 0.99 | 3.01 | 0.96 | 3.13 | 1.04 | −.960 | .338 |
Note: M = mean, SD = standard deviation, t = t-test value, p = p-value.