The shake-up in the city could be good news for IT directors
looking to hire highly skilled programmers,
IT architects and
datacentre staff.
Thousands of IT staff in the city are facing uncertain times and
many IT jobs are likely to go. Bola Rotibi, principal analyst at
MWD Advisors, said, "Now is the time for IT directors to snap
up IT skills."
IT directors who previously could not afford to compete with the
banking sector by offering high salaries to attract middleware,
Java and transaction processing specialists, could find the same
people knocking at their door according to Rotibi. "There will be
skilled IT staff in the city now looking for jobs."
The IT skills that until now have been the preserve of the
banking sector will now be available to IT directors in government
and other idustry sectors. "The influx of IT people will have
long-term benefits," she said.
For instance, they are trained to run large, complex datacentre
infrastructres. "City IT staff are more clued up on running highly
secure, high performance transaction processing systems in
datacentres." Rotibi believed such people could now benefit IT
departments outside the finance sector.
It may be time for IT directors to rethink their IT strategy to
take advantage of the skills available in the IT jobs market. Daley
Thompson, managing director of recruitment firm Madison Black,
said, "Forward thinking companies could view their IT strategy on a
grand scale."