IT staffing levels are up 15% over 2005, according to
research by the National Computing Centre (NCC), inflated partly by
activity in the finance sector.
While a typical company employs 28 staff per 1,000 users, this
rises to 75 staff in finance companies.
Finance firms spend £9,864 for every employee, compared with an
overall average of £3,891. Transport, utilities and business
services spend well above the average.
At the other end of the scale, companies in the health sector
spend just £1,713 per user.
NCC reports that average IT investment remains a steady and
modest 2.5% of turnover for the second year running.
“Today’s results tell us that IT decision-makers are confident,
but not over-enthusiastic about future prospects,” says Stefan
Foster, managing director of NCC.
“Organisations are typically making incremental rather than
wholesale changes to their IT provision.”
Mobile devices are lapping up almost a third of IT spend while
development investment is focused on voice over IP.
By 2008, NCC expects 12% of desktops to run on Windows
Vista.