Businesses reported fewer difficulties recruiting
skilled IT professionals in the 2nd quarter of 2006, according to a
survey by sector skills council E-Skills UK.
The proportion of companies reporting hard-to-fill vacancies
fell from 25% to 12.5% between the first two quarters of the year,
the lowest recorded level since the second quarter of 2005.
Although organisations said they would step up recruitment over
the last half of 2006, most said they did not expect recruitment
difficulties to get worse.
The figures came amid signs of greater churn in the jobs market.
More IT staff were looking to move jobs in the second half of 2006,
with numbers up 12% from the previous quarter.
Despite easing pressure on recruitment, more firms reported gaps
in the skills of their existing workforce.
One in 10 organisations said their IT teams had skills gaps,
with a shortage of high-level technical skills being the most
common compliant.
The figures follow a slight fall in training by employers during
the first half of 2006, with the percentage of ICT staff recently
receiving job-related training and education falling from 31% to
29%.
Feast and famine as skills market unravels
SSL/Computer Weekly salary surveys
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