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Achieving gender balance in engineering may take 90 years

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Analysis of the latest data from the ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS), shows that despite an abundance of finance/initiatives to increase the level of female representation within the engineering ‘professions’ (a set of ‘core’ occupations identified by Engineering UK within their Annual – State of Engineering report) – the gender balance for engineering actually declined slightly during the past year i.e. the proportion of individuals in engineering roles that were… Read More »Achieving gender balance in engineering may take 90 years

Is the UK being left behind when it comes to gender representation in STEM?

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Is the UK being left behind when it comes to gender representation in STEM. Just looking at the latest stats from NCES which show that, not only does the gender balance in STEM subjects in the US (post-secondary awards) look favourable compared to the UK, but also, the situation across the pond has been improving slightly in recent years. OK so educational systems differ I know, but, further analysis of… Read More »Is the UK being left behind when it comes to gender representation in STEM?

Growth in the UK tech workforce (specialists) between 2018-28 will be above that for key EU competitors … but in Spain things are set to ‘sky rocket’!

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Ok media speak having just digested a load of items relating to tech tsunamis, skills cataclysms, the end of the world as we know it due to a slight fall in job applicants etc etc… however: Latest forecasts from CEDEFOP (EU) suggest that over the next ten years, while the number of UK tech specialists is predicted to grow at a higher rate than in other key EU nations –… Read More »Growth in the UK tech workforce (specialists) between 2018-28 will be above that for key EU competitors … but in Spain things are set to ‘sky rocket’!

UK businesses (enterprises) appear more likely to undertake ICT activities using in-house staff than organisations in other parts of the EU

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UK businesses (enterprises) appear more likely to undertake ICT activities using in-house staff than organisations in other parts of the EU. Perhaps contrary to what we read in the press, UK enterprises (with more than 10 staff and not including financial services – don’t look at me this is a Eurostat/ONS thing that they have been messing up on for years) appear less likely to contract work out to external… Read More »UK businesses (enterprises) appear more likely to undertake ICT activities using in-house staff than organisations in other parts of the EU

IT skills shortages – still common but the UK actually does pretty well compared with many of our competitors

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Latest data from Eurostat shows once again that UK employers aren’t the only ones having trouble recruiting the tech staff they need – in fact the scale of the issue here is actually pretty small when compared with the likes of Czechia, Austria, Malt and Luxembourg where more than 70% of employers advertising for ICT staff last year stated that they had difficulties recruiting for some/all of these positions (compared… Read More »IT skills shortages – still common but the UK actually does pretty well compared with many of our competitors

More pressure on recruiters as the pool of unemployed tech specialists gets smaller!

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In the last quarter of 2017, the estimated number of unemployed tech specialists in the UK (ILO definition) fell to 30,000 people.  As a result there was a corresponding fall in the associated unemployment rate – from 2.4% to 2.2% over the Q3-Q4.17 period. The overall UK unemployment rate also fell during the last quarter of the year – though at 4.2% (Q4.17), it was still almost twice the level… Read More »More pressure on recruiters as the pool of unemployed tech specialists gets smaller!

Demand for tech specialists up by 15%

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Interesting beta data from a new(ish) European project (aiming to provide a free vacancy data tracking service) shows there were approximately 59,000 advertised vacancies for tech specialists in the UK during the final quarter of 2017 – a 15% increase on the previous year. The most notable increase in demand over the Q4.16-7 period was for telecoms engineers (up 118%) though demand for networking professionals as a group was down… Read More »Demand for tech specialists up by 15%

One in seven (14%) tech specialists in the UK are non-UK nationals

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Latest data from ONS shows that during the last quarter of 2017 there were an estimated 186,000 tech specialists in the UK with non-UK nationality (i.e. 14% of the total at that time). This was a higher proportion than that registered for the workforce as a whole (11%), amongst which, an estimated 3,563,000 people were non-UK nationals. The proportion of tech specialists that were non-UK nationals was however, well below… Read More »One in seven (14%) tech specialists in the UK are non-UK nationals

Is finance making the grade when it comes to workforce diversity? – well in the case of people with disabilities at least, not really:

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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 at each of the previous years for which data are available (2013 onward). Lastly, when considering specific finance occupations, it appears that people with… Read More »Is finance making the grade when it comes to workforce diversity? – well in the case of people with disabilities at least, not really:

Finance employment growth 2012-17

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Looking at the FS sector/it’s importance to the UK it is noted that though there are plenty of reports on the industry vertical, there’s not so much on the people working in finance jobs more generally (i.e. inside/outside the FS sector) – so as a heads up – the number of people working in financial occupations in the UK topped 1.9m in 2017 – up 4% on the previous year… Read More »Finance employment growth 2012-17