Following our most successful month in our eleven year history October was our most successful October in the last five years, marginally better by 5% than the same period last year, whereas September had been over 50% better than any other.
“The Report on Jobs” by the REC and KPMG issued on Friday 11th November states that the requirement for permanent staff within the IT & Computing sector had the strongest rate of permanent expansion followed by Executive/Professional. Although overall permanent placements fell for first time in over two years this was heavily influenced by the Healthcare Industry.
IT & Computing permanent staff salaries remained broadly unchanged, for our latest permanent salary guide please visit. www.langleyjames.net/Articles/17/Salary_Guide.aspx
Seasonally November generally experiences an increase in the demand for permanent IT Staff as companies wish to be in a position to have new staff joining in January
Contractors within the IT & Computing sector; the demand was at a higher level in October which was also an increase for the same period last year, pace of growth quickened and turnaround times with rates marginally higher, this was not consistent with the rest of the industry as other sectors reported a fall as fears of a double dip recession intensify
Candidates reasons for seeking new employment are stating they are considering new positions due to seeking a rise in their salary, due to inflation they have seen a rise in their living and travel costs and annual salary rises have not been offered. This has already left many candidates at new job offer stage, susceptible to being made counter offers by their existing employers.
The most common level of vacancies being registered with Langley James IT Recruitment has increased to 28k bracket with clients seeking candidates that are about to make their first career move to their second role in IT with between 18 months and 3 years’ experience. These candidates are particularly scarce due to the time they would have begun their career (between 2007–2009) and the fact it was the height of the recession when few companies were offering entry level positions and the height of the period when redundancies were being made. These candidates are also susceptible to accepting counter offers as they have not encountered this before and feel flattered
There has been an increase in more Senior roles including Managers and Project managers which has been an encouraging sign.
We recommend to clients about to embark on recruiting to take into consideration and increase on market rates and incentives to encourage those considering changing roles and to be able to complete the recruitment cycle as quickly as possible.
We are finding that the majority of the candidates successfully placed are those from our own extensive internal database as opposed to those directly from Advertising i.e. we are utilising our networking and headhunting skills.
Our success to source the best IT candidates for your roles either short term contracts or permanent, is due to our ability to network and headhunt from our internal database of in excess of 100,000 IT Candidates predominantly in the South East, built by Langley James over the last eleven years. We utilise online job board databases and social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook, we continually advertise and are able to write appealing highly responsive adverts (the Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Agency background does help!!) that are published on more than 20 different tried and tested job boards including the most common and niche specialists boards and social Networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. We continue our effort to be innovative and offer pragmatic solutions to your IT resourcing issues.