Businesses will have to adapt their recruitment processes to cope with a shortage of IT professionals with combined business and technology experience over the next five years, Gartner predicted this week.
Insurance and financial services group Allianz has signed a five-year £274m strategic outsourcing partnership with Fujitsu Services for the provision of desktop, network and telecommunication services.
IT support workers are among 1,100 staff who will lose their jobs when Barclays Bank shrinks operations at its Dorset office and moves some roles overseas.
IT jobs are heading north as a result of increased regional development grants and big businesses establishing new operations there, and South East IT workers are planning to follow the work.