Texas, Florida, North Carolina lead IT job growth in first half of 2014

US technology professionals searching for jobs may want to look in states not normally considered Information Technology hot spots.

The three states with the highest percentage of IT job growth for the first half of 2014 were Texas at 5.99 percent, Florida at 5.64 percent and North Carolina at 3.8 percent, according to a report from IT job site Dice.