Norway is looking for ICT talents

Trends in Norway:

• highest demand for professionals within software development / system development; digital communication; information security and computer security; data analysis; AI; machine learning; service design.
• most often required skills and competencies: Azure, .NET, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C/C++, API, SAP, Sharepoint; DevOps, Frontend development, Backend development, Fullstack development;
• required education level: Bachelor or Master’s degree in IT or other relevant technological field
• required language: often Norwegian or another Scandinavian language, but many positions in English as well.
• cloud computing
• Norway one of the world leaders in edtech (educational technology). More information on http://osloedtech.no/en/, Oslo Edtech Cluster. Read more about “The Norwegian Classroom”
• development of eHealth solutions. More information on:

https://www.norwayhealthtech.com/ Norway Health Tech https://ehealthresearch.no/en/ the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research

National strategy for the development of Norway as a data centre nation. (18 co-location data centres in Norway as pr 2020)

Relevant websites for the ICT sector:

https://ikt-norge.no/english/ interest group for the Norwegian ICT industry

https://odanettverk.no/ - ODA is the leading meeting place for women in tech in the Nordics

www.digi.no online newspaper for the IT sector. Job listings in “IT-jobber”

www.dataforeningen.no The Norwegian Computer Society

https://digitalnorway.com/prosjekter/eu/ DigitalNorway, a Digital Innovation Hub

www.teknojobb.no Portal for jobs in IT

www.cw.no Computer World, news in the IT sector. Job listings on https://www.cw.no/stilling

ICT Job listings on NAV The public employment service’s website

A few companies in ICT (non-exhaustive list):

For job listings, look for “karriere” or “jobb” or “ledige stillinger” on the companies’ website

www.norwayexports.no  The gateway to the Norwegian Export Market. In “Sectors” choose “Information and Communications” to find links to companies.

www.telenor.com Telenor and https://www.telenor.com/innovation/research/ Telenor Research

www.opera.com Opera, internet browser

https://www.atea.no/ Atea

www.ibm.com/no IBM

https://www.microsoft.com/nb-no/ Microsoft Norway and Microsoft’s Development Center in Norway (MDCN)

https://www.soprasteria.com/about-us Sopra Steria

https://www.bouvet.no/ Bouvet

www.knowit.no Knowit

https://www.tietoevry.com/en/ TietoEVRY

https://intility.no/en/ Intility the Enterprise Cloud Solution

www.dell.no Dell

http://datarespons.no Data Respons

https://www.globetech.no/ Globetech AS 

https://www.capgemini.com/no-no/ Capgemini Norway

www.accenture.com/no-en/ Accenture

www.initio.no Initio

https://assessment.aon.com/en-us/ Aon's Assessment Solutions

www.csamhealth.com CSAM, eHealth company

www.myvr-software.com myVR Software (HxGN SMART Visualization)

https://www.itera.com/ Itera

https://braathe.no/en/ Braathe Gruppen

www.hospitality.no Hospital IT

www.kry.no KRY

https://openit.com/ Open IT

https://teknograd.no/ Technograd

https://www.resight.no/home Resight

https://gritera.com/en-us Gritera

https://coromatic.com/ Coromatic

https://cegal.com/ Cegal

https://www.eye-share.com/ Eye-Share

https://www.upheads.no/ Upheads

https://www.compendia.no/ Compendia

Some staffing and recruitment agencies (non-exhaustive list):

www.experis.no/en-NO/  Experis / Manpower Group, consultancy and recruitment in Engineering, Finance and IT

https://www.technogarden.no/forretningsomrader/it/ Technogarden IT

https://www.compasshrg.com/ Compass

https://www.glasspaper.no/en/ Glasspaper

www.dfind.no Dfind

http://www.centric.eu/NO/Default/IT Centric IT Professionals

https://www.venezuservices.no/ Venezu

NB: many ICT jobs are not advertised or can be hard to find because there are ICT jobs basically everywhere, in all types and sizes of companies, public and private. So consider also:

• registering your CV in CV databases (ex: EURES the European job mobility portal www.eures.europa.eu, www.finn.no/jobb)
• registering at a few staffing and recruitment agencies
• follow companies on social media (LinkedIn, Facebook…)

A few words in Norwegian:

“ledige stillinger” or "stilling ledig" or “ledige jobber” or “jobb” = job vacancies

programvare
software

maskinvare
hardware

utvikler
developer

utvikling
development

systemutvikler
system developer

programmerer
programmer

programmering
programming

sky
cloud

skytjenester
cloud computing

nettløsninger
web solutions

kunstig intelligens
artificial intelligence

maskinlære
machine learning

 NAV EURES in Norway, september 2021