Umbrella services news: IT recruitment 'increased during Q4'

Posted on 8 March 2010

Published by Susie Lee-Kilgariff

IT contracting opportunities continued to increase during the final quarter of 2009, it has been reported.

According to the latest e-skills Bulletin, there were 26 per cent more placements available between October and December than in the third quarter of the year.

This increase in demand for IT professionals came after six successive quarters of falling placement numbers.

Latest figures from e-skills indicate that there are 1.061 million IT workers across the UK, with 1.33 candidates for each role advertised.

Last week, Adrian Marlowe, chairman of the Association of Recruitment Consultants, claimed that the end of the recession had encouraged more employers to invest in their IT departments, both in terms of new technology and professional expertise.

"Those organisations that have larger IT systems are taking the view that they need to upgrade, hence the IT requirement in that regard," he said.

Categories: Employment Trends