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Number of IT professionals in the UK reaches record level
Posted Aug 17, 2011
The number of people working in IT has increased for the third quarter in a row, with over one million IT professionals now working in the UK
The latest e-skills report shows 1,093,000 people now work in IT - the highest number ever recorded. This accounts for 4% of the country's workforce.
All key metrics published in the latest bulletin are positive for the industry as a whole, with the number of IT roles advertised up for the sixth consecutive quarter, and the number of available candidates actually declining.
Compared to 105,000 permanent roles advertised, just 95,000 were estimated to be actively seeking a new role. This is the first time there has been a shortage of available IT professionals recorded since 2008.
The report suggests that the likely knock-on effect of the increasing competition by recruiters for good quality IT staff is an increase in permanent salaries and contractor rates.
Skills in demand
The Top 10 contract IT skills in demand during the first quarter of 2011 are SQL, C, C#, Java, Oracle, .NET, SQL SVR, SAP, Unix and ASP.
There has also been a marked increase in recruiter demand for contractors with C/Loadrunner skills.
The contract role types which have risen for the largest number of consecutive quarters include senior business analysts (7 quarters), and senior systems developers (6 quarters).
General outlook for the IT industry
The overall outlook for the IT industry would appear to be positive, away from the jobs market itself. There has been a decline in IT company liquidations, increasing acquisition activity within the sector, and successive rises in IT hardware and software investment.
During the final quarter of 2011, private sector investment in IT rose by 9% to £3.4bn - just 5% less than the level recorded in the final quarter of 2007 (before the recession hit). The turnover of IT companies also rose by 10% during the final quarter of last year.
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