Key IT skills found to be lacking in the UK

14 Feb 2012

Seven key IT skills have been found to be lacking within the specialist IT recruitment market, including contractors well versed in security and business analyst jobs.

According to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's (REC) Report on Jobs, the pre-2012 shortage of those with Oracle, .Net, Datastage, Citrix and Firewall skills expanded so far this year.

This list of skills, according to the REC, is getting longer and this reflects a tiny improvement in demand for contract IT recruitment.

REC chief executive Kevin Green denied this was due to Agency Worker Regulations, saying he saw "little evidence that the Agency Workers Regulations have had a significant impact on hiring".

He added that many IT recruiters were still managing to make "considerable use of flexible working arrangements".

Within the report, there was found to be a real lack of full-time database administrators, developers, IT marketers, VB, C#, SAP and .Net candidates. There was also a lack of applicants for Datastage and DB2 positions.

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