British IT jobs market expected to boom this year
Friday, 14 January 2005
According to site Contractor UK, this looks like being a good year for our British cousins. Top recruiter, Spring IT, predicts growth in rates for this year of at least 5% and growth in demand for staff up to 10%.
This is despite growth in outsourcing and offshoring. Demand is expected to be so high that both local and offshore professionals will benefit.
“All in all, it [2005] should be one of the best years we have seen in IT staffing since the late 1990s,” said Spring COO William Grubbs.
New technologies such as .Net and J2EE were tipped to be most in demand. Recruiter Parity told CUK that the market had turned from a “client-driven” one to a “candidate-driven” one.
Government reports suggest that London City is about to embark on a hiring spree, with plans to recruit about 27,000 new professionals in 2005-06.
All in all this is great news for IT professionals here in Australia. Options for those wanting overseas work will be better. Also local employers may find themselves competing for candidates with foreign companies, pushing up rates. The days of doubling your income by moving to London look like coming back.
Bring it on.
Read the full story at Contractor UK.
Paul Knapp (editor@brainbox.com.au)
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January's looking goodHad quite a lot of calls from agencies with job specs and decent rates. Makes quite a nice change from the last few years! If January market is anything to go by, it's certainly looking like it might be the start of an upturn finally here in the UK. Oz abroad, 01/14/2005 01:46:39 PM
I second thatNumber of job ads for my skill-set (J2EE) are now back up to about 80% of what they were in 2000 (they went down to about 30% at one stage!). Looks like a defnite pick-up here in the UK. However having said that the job ads still want a lot of skills and experience, usually at least 3 yrs plus in a given specialisation. Another Oz Abroad, 01/20/2005 10:28:29 AM
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