Skills shortages and gaps

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 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.

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’!

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

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.

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?