Tech

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

Despite continued reports of skills shortages, there are still around 26,000 unemployed tech specialists in the UK looking for work.

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Over the last couple of weeks we posted a few items exploring the small/diminishing numbers of JSA claimants seeking jobs in tech (around 2,000 each quarter of late) – in this chart we can see that in reality, these figures can be a little misleading in that not all tech specialists that are out of work will actually be claiming such benefits (whether by choice or, perhaps more likely –… Read More »Despite continued reports of skills shortages, there are still around 26,000 unemployed tech specialists in the UK looking for work.

Age and tech – are older tech workers being left on the scrapheap?

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Continuing on from the last couple of posts – I noted today that when looking at the age profile of JSA claimants seeking tech jobs there has been a worrying increase over the past 5 years in the proportion of said group aged 50+ – rising from just 13% of the total in Q2.12 to 30% in Q2.18! To be honest, this does mirror the figures for claimants overall (up… Read More »Age and tech – are older tech workers being left on the scrapheap?

Tech skills shortages?

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Tech skills shortages? – well using the number of JSA claimants seeking tech jobs as an indicator at least, the available labour pool seems to have taken a hammering in recent years for sure: There were 2,135 JSA claimants seeking work as Tech specialists during the second quarter of 2018 – a drop of 8% on the previous quarter and 26% on the previous year. By comparison the overall number… Read More »Tech skills shortages?