Labour force profile in ICT sector

The ICT sector in Rwanda has 13 principal activities. The Movie/Film Casting establishments are dominant constituting 36.4% followed by Cyber Café with constituting 12.4% of the total establishments in the sector. Other activities include trade in computer and telecommunication equipment, telecommunication services, data processing, hosting & related activities – Web portal, repair of computers/communication equipment, and photo studios, computer programming, consultancy and related activities, and software development / publishing (development) among others. The ICT establishments in the private sector had 2,007 labor units employed as Managers, Professionals (Engineers), Liberal Professionals, Technicians and Artisans. The managers constituted 26.7% of the workforce, and the largest cadre in the sector, although this is biased upwards by the large number of owner-managers of micro-enterprises. Skilled ICT staff (Professionals and Technicians) accounted for just 23.2% of the total occupations in the sector. The large proportion of managerial and non-technical staff in the sector reflects that the sector is mostly engaged in selling and distribution of hardware and software. In total 19.8% of all employees were women, and 7.5% of all employees were expatriates constituting of 9.9% of total labor units.