Companies Compete In Frenetic IT Staff Recruitment

The recruitment market for business analysts and online specialists is becoming frantic for
many companies, who are experiencing a shortage of adequately qualified
workers, according to new figures from KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment
Confederation (REC).



The figures, which were compiled by business information company, Markit,
showed that IT staff have been in increasing demand since June 2010, in both
permanent and contract roles. Demand for their skills was second only to
construction and engineering workers. 



KPMG's head of business services, Bernard Brown, said that despite an overall
slowing in permanent placements across the job market as a whole, recruitment of online specialists remained highly
competitive. 



Of the eight broad types of permanent staff monitored by the survey, six
registered higher levels of demand in June [2011], he said. The
strongest rate of expansion was signalled for engineering and construction
workers, followed by IT and computing employees.



Matt Gascoigne, from IT staffing specialists Badenoch & Clark, said that
the constant evolution and development of business technology systems was
propping up the staffing market. 



There is increased demand, especially in larger organisations with more
than 2,000 users, for new functionality on the latest Microsoft releases,
including Windows 7 and Office 2010, he said, adding that financial
services companies are frantically looking for people with good desktop support
experience.