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Good news for the IT contractor – jobs and salaries rising
At the start of the year, the Professional Contractor’s Group (PCG) issued a statement from its managing director, John Brazier, proclaiming that the UK’s freelance contracting community will be facing a challenging twelve months in 2011 but were well placed to handle it. He believes that the flexible working model is likely to catch on [...] -
REC Predicts Older People Will Turn to Contracting
A common assumption amongst many people of working age is that the of freelance contracting option is best suited to a younger age group – people who have energy to spare and are daring enough to face the uncertainties which can ensue upon starting up a Ltd Company. However, according to the Recruitment and Employment [...] -
IT Contractor Optimism Rises as Job Vacancies Rise by a Quarter
The UK’s IT contracting community has received a welcome boost from the latest Job Index from Reed IT. IT vacancies – including new contract jobs – leapt by a vigorous 23 per cent in December 2010 compared to the same time the previous year. Reed’s Job Index uses data from its extensive jobs board and tracks [...] -
Essential IT Contractor Skills for 2010 Revealed
Another expert voice has joined the recent chorus of commentators urging the jobbing IT contractor to extend his or her repertoire of skills in order to make the best of 2011’s job opportunities. Alex Farrell, who is Managing Director of the IT Job Board, has pointed out that demand for highly skilled IT professionals in [...] -
PCG Issues Upbeat Message to UK Contractors in 2011
The Managing Director of the Professional Contractors Group (PCG), John Brazier, has issued an upbeat message to the UK’s contracting workforce as we enter 2011: despite the public sector cuts, economic uncertainty and the “spectre of redundancies”, he is convinced that freelancers are the one sector of the community “ready for the challenges ahead.” Mr Brazier’s [...] -
Roll Over CIPD – The REC Predicts an Upbeat Jobs Market for 2011
The UK’s contracting community can draw a little seasonal comfort from a new forecast from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Contract jobs could well be on the rise in 2011, according to the REC’s predictions, as many private sector employees will be looking to hire staff in the New Year. The REC’s survey suggests that [...] -
Will 2011 Bring a Bonanza of Jobs in IT Contracting?
2011 is set to be a promising year for the jobbing IT contractor, who is likely to experience rising demand for his or her services in the New Year as IT is increasingly regarded as a critical resource. This is the view of two companies from computer giant Dell’s customer base. Good Energy and Pensions First [...] -
UK Jobs Market is Improving
Whilst it hasn’t been disastrous for the UK’s freelance contracting community, 2010 is unlikely to go down in history as the year of plenty as far as contract jobs are concerned at least. There hasn’t been a collapse in the jobs market as some had feared, but neither has there been any spectacular growth. With [...]