In demand in IT this month: permanent CRM specialists replacing historically contract-led candidates and highly skilled project management professionals with closely aligned project/industry experience. Meanwhile, candidates in general are refusing to move out of secure jobs unless significant pay increases are offered in their new roles. The following comments were…
With shrinking budgets, we’ve been informed that IT support engineers are expected to offer hybrid skillsets to businesses who can no longer afford to hire for multiple roles. Senior professionals are also expected to ‘hit the ground running’ in a highly competitive market. Permanent and contractor salaries are both up…
Housing Management is driving IT systems specialist roles, while SMEs are looking for professionals that can merge more than one role. Enforced rate cuts for contractors in investment banks will lead to a large number of moves to buy-side or smaller investment management firms.
The Cloud’s changing the IT dynamic: fire fighting’s out while developing secure business applications for a mobile world are ever more to the fore.
According to a study commissioned by Microsoft earlier this year, spending on ‘Cloud’ services will generate 14 million jobs worldwide by 2014 and drive £0.75 trillion…
SMEs look for in-house IT, while security compliance drives ISO capabilities and project management has to get ‘hands on’.
Security compliance drives a demand for senior professionals who can bring systems up to standard, while project managers are being asked to get into the nitty gritty. SMEs look to bring…
UK retail sales have been in the doldrums for most of the past year and the sector reeled from yet more bad news in May 2012, to reports from the British Retail Consortium that sales had fallen 3.3% year-on-year in April. The fall represents the biggest monthly drop since March…
According to this week’s Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs, the number of job vacancies hit an eight-month high in March, and although competition for new vacancies was strong, many analysts are predicting that unemployment is beginning to top out. Currently the unemployment rate stands at…
The Information Technology (IT) sector is one of the few areas of the British economy that is expected to experience job growth throughout 2012. The main driver of this growth is the UK’s online industry, as a new report shows that consumers and companies in Britain have embraced the internet…
A survey by global property consultancy Knight Frank has revealed that IT companies as well as telecoms and internet firms increased their operations in London in 2011, fuelling a boom in jobs. The technology sector is becoming an increasingly important sector in the UK economy as companies look to take…
More businesses in the UK could be seeking to hire people in IT jobs to help them move to the cloud as they seek greater security.
Security and regulatory compliance is a major advantage to cloud computing, explained John Dunn, security editor at technology website Techworld.
"The security layer the…
