The Labour market is just not working – ever struggled to get a plumber – they charge the earth and you always have to wait weeks as there are never enough to go round – so why are there seemingly virtually no women working as ‘Plumbers and heating and ventilating engineers’ in the UK (just 1% of the total in 2017 from our analysis of ONS data from the Labour… Read More »The Labour market is just not working
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!
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?