Key salary trends
Advertised permanent salaries reflect the state of current employment levels with average pay in advertisements increasing by just 0.6% compared with a year ago. These general figures tend to hide the wide variations seen in salaries dependent on the job function, region, business sector and software skills. In particular, developers working in the southern counties are being offered salaries that are 18.3% higher than the north. When compared with London the figure soars to 47%. Developers with experience of C# and .NET can also expect to see...
read moreIT recruitment levels continue to rise during the 3rd quarter 2011
This quarter’s figures compiled by www.jobadswatch. co.uk show that during the third quarter of 2011 the IT jobs market for permanent staff continued to expand. Between the second and the third quarter of 2011 there were 1.0% more jobs advertised. This is the ninth consecutive quarter that has seen higher demand. However the rate of improvement is considerably lower than that recorded in the first quarter of 2011 when vacancies were up by 5.7%. The impact of the financial crisis is still having an effect with vacancies down by over 50% since...
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