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Is finance making the grade when it comes to workforce diversity?

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Is finance making the grade when it comes to workforce diversity? – well in the case of people with disabilities at least, not really: During 2017 approximately 10% of people working in finance positions were classed as disabled (i.e. according to definitions set out within the 2010 Equality Act) – compared with 12% amongst the workforce as a whole. Moreover this ‘lag’ of 2 percentage points is apparent when looking… Read More »Is finance making the grade when it comes to workforce diversity?

Gender initiatives and tech study – are they working?

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I am not going to make a call on that one but whilst the latest applications data from UCAS (released today) show some improvement over the past five years in the proportion of applicants (UK domiciled) for Computer Science courses that were female, the gender balance is still below the peak (from data available) experienced in 2010. Moreover, the chart below is just to illustrate the relative change (i.e. indexed)… Read More »Gender initiatives and tech study – are they working?

One in seven Councils facing IT skills shortages at the start of the year according to the LGA

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One in seven Councils facing IT skills shortages at the start of the year according to the LGA. I just stumbled across this survey this morning which shows 17% of Councils had difficulties recruiting IT professionals at the start of the year making this the seventh most common ‘shortage occupation’ at that time. The survey also shows just under one in ten (7%) Councils experiencing difficulties finding IT User support… Read More »One in seven Councils facing IT skills shortages at the start of the year according to the LGA

Tech Industry Gold degree analysis

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Delighted to say that we have just produced a new report for Tech Partnership Degrees which uses the latest data from HESA to show how graduates of the employer-accredited Tech Industry Gold degrees are enjoying academic and employment results which far outstrip those associated with other computer science courses, most of the major subject areas at HE level, and HE courses as a whole. The analysis by gender in particular… Read More »Tech Industry Gold degree analysis

Women in Engineering

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Sunday was international Women in Engineering day which inspired me to have a quick look at the state of the gender balance in related occupations over the 2014-18 period. The results – terrible – for each of the main engineering professions less than one sixth of workers were women, and overall, women accounted for only one in ten engineering professionals on average (10%) over the period – i.e. 43,000 all… Read More »Women in Engineering

Women in IT setting the record straight –

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Having been informed on more than one occasion of late that the issue of low representation for women amongst the IT professions is something somehow new/flying in the face of historical trends, over the past few days I have looked in to this to see if it is in fact true. The result, sadly I have to say, is that it is not – evidence for the halcyon days of… Read More »Women in IT setting the record straight –

Decline in the number of EU nationals working in Finance/Insurance industries post BREXIT.

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Overall, the proportion of EU nationals working in these sectors fell from 6% to 5% over the Q2.16-Q4.17 period, whilst the decline was even more pronounced in many of the industry sub-sectors – notably Security and commodity contracts brokerage services, where a fall of 7 percentage points was apparent (i.e.  down from 17% to 10% over the period).

Tech employers increasingly looking to EU nationals to plug the industry skills gap.

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Following a notable decline in the aftermath of the BREXIT vote, the proportion tech industry workers with EU nationality was seen to increase throughout the second half of 2017 with a particularly sharp rise occurring over the Q3-Q4.17 period. As a result, by the final quarter of 2017, approximately 8% (83,000) of the industry workforce (1,093,000 people in total) were thought to be of EU nationality.

Despite BREXIT uncertainty, the aerospace industries are increasing their reliance on EU nationals who now account for 10% of the workforce:

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There were 285,000 people working in aerospace during the final quarter of 2017, of which 28,000 were EU nationals – up from 19,000 in the final quarter of 2016  and 16,000 at the time of the BREXIT vote. The increase in EU nationals was most pronounced amongst aerospace manufactures where representation almost doubled from around 6% to 10% over the period (Q1.16-Q4.17).