CWJobs; Contract IT Jobs growing slower than Permanent IT Jobs

Recently, Morgan McKinley (a leading recruitment agency) found when conducting its London Employment Monitor that;

• The number of new candidates increased by 76% month-on-month in January 2011
• Compared with January 2010, January 2011 saw a 64% rise of professionals new to the jobs market
• 62% of 200 Human Resources and Line Managers surveyed across financial services in London expect basic salary offers to rise this year, with 55% expecting the rise to be no more than 10%
• 31% predict contract rates to rise by the end of 2011, while only 27% expect the rise to be no more than 10%

And only a couple of weeks ago a leading IT Recruitment Consultancy within the Banking Sector said that highly skilled IT Contractors in particular stand to profit in the near future with many Banks unable to hire permanent workers due to a lack of skills in the permanent market, however the findings of the CW Jobs survey do appear to contradict this somewhat. The Director of IT Recruitment at Networkers International, James Smith, told the Recruiter at the time that “Our business has been fuelled by the financial markets by both the banking industry and insurance as well. We have been doing a lot of recruitment for those kinds of organisations. New projects are kicking off at the banks. In 2009, with the state of the economy, a lot of cuts were made but going into 2010 and now a lot of the banks and insurance houses have started new projects which they haven’t done for the last three or four years. Overall, we see continuation of steady growth for contract and permanent staff. The demand for permanent staff remains high and is higher than contract staff. Due to the lack of skills in the permanent market, there will be a shift in terms of growth on the contract front. As clients cannot find those permanent workers, they will get contractors in to work on a shorter-term basis or a project basis.

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