Men made up more than four in five employed people in the EU with an education in information and communication technology (ICT) in 2025.
A total of 3.4 million people in the EU were employed with an ICT educational background in 2025, up 5.1% from 3.2 million a year earlier, Eurostat reported on Friday.
ICT refers to subjects linked to computing and communications technologies.
Men accounted for 83.4% of employed people with an ICT education in 2025 — about 2.8 million people — while women made up 16.6%, or around 0.6 million.
The number of women in employment with an ICT education fell 2.6% compared with 2024, while their share dropped by 1.3 percentage points from 17.9%.
The highest shares of men among employed people with an ICT education were recorded in Czechia (92.9%), Slovenia (89.1%), Latvia (89.0%), Lithuania (88.9%) and Slovakia (88.4%).
The highest proportions of women were in Denmark (30.0%), Sweden (29.8%), Romania (28.6%), Bulgaria (25.6%) and Croatia (25.2%).
Most had higher education qualifications
Nearly three quarters — 74.8% — of employed people with an ICT education in the EU had completed tertiary education in 2025, Eurostat said.
Tertiary education refers to higher education such as university-level degrees.
More than nine in 10 employed people with an ICT education had tertiary education in Denmark (97.7%), France (96.6%), Cyprus (96.4%), Ireland (92.3%), Bulgaria (91.1%) and Croatia (90.9%).
By contrast, most employed people with an ICT education did not have tertiary education in Italy (69.2%) and Portugal (58.8%).
