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The latest e-skills quarterly bulletin presents a mixed picture of recent trends and the near future in IT employment. But overall things seem to be improving gradually - and contractors are in the vanguard. “The market for contractors seems to be doing slightly better than that for permanent staff”, the e-skills analyst concludes. The e-skills bulletin provides a synthesis of all major UK (and some US) data sources, including the Office for National Statistics, Reed, Jobstats, Gartner and Ovum. e-skills is a non-profit organisation backed by employers, dedicated to improving UK business performance by raising the skills of the workforce. While redundancies in IT occupations continued, the number of IT staff employed actually increased by 21,000 over the last quarter of 2003. Ads for permanent IT posts fell by 4,600, but contract vacancies were up by 500 (4 percent). The hardest jobs to fill were contract vacancies for IDMS, which remained open an average of more than four weeks. Rates for systems analysts were up 16 percent and software test engineers by ten per cent, but oddly, senior software engineers saw a 19 percent fall - which makes you wonder whether the small numbers involved skewed the results. Average contract rates were L42 for Oracle, L40 an hour for Java and PL/SQL, L38 for C, and L35 for VB. Skills tipped to be hot include broadband, wireless, Linux, content management, data mining and security. Oh, and “emotional intelligence” will be a core requirement. Can you get a certificate for that? Sadly, you probably can. Nick Langley Feb 4, 2004 Email this article Printer friendly page Previous Page
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