The most popular function within IT is for software developers. Last quarter, developers (all grades) made up over 39% of all IT jobs advertised. This is followed by Project Management, which makes up 20% of the total. Elsewhere demand for support and networking staff is up by 4.8% and 3.1% respectively.
The demand for IT staff is primarily driven by the need for specialised software skills, and how these are applied by different business sectors. The Microsoft development tools of C# and .NET have seen demand continue to rise with respectively 2.5% and 2.9% more jobs being advertised. Other newer skills such as Agile are seeing major interest from employers with vacancies up by 9.3%. This is complemented further down the table with other new skills such as VMware and Scrum up by 1.8% and 6.7%.
Software houses and outsource consultancies have been the biggest recruiters of IT personnel. During this last quarter they made up over 63% of all permanent jobs advertised. In the contract market, the main driving force in recruitment is software houses and financial organisations making up 46.7% and 36.0% of the market respectively. This time round software house recruitment for contractors is up by 3.8%, and finance by 3.7%. Elsewhere media recruitment is up by 2.9%, retail by 1.7% and manufacturing by 1.9%. While Public Sector jobs are down by almost 50% on last year.
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Rick Southcott
