Jenrick IT has reported a continued increase in demand for top talent during Q2, with many clients looking to attract top quality IT staff to their organisation for both internal and client focussed initiatives.

Philip Fanthom (Managing Director at Jenrick IT) commented:

“Q1 and Q2 of 2011 has been very very active, with clients in all our vertical markets engaging our services. We have seen unprecedented growth in both our contract/associate business and permanent recruitment business. The heartening side is that clients are choosing Jenrick because of our ability to deliver recruitment project results.

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It’s great news for the IT job market, according to Contractor UK.

The recession in the business services sector is over, most visibly in the IT marketplace which will create 93,000 additional jobs by 2015, research by a financial consultancy reveals.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research says “steady growth” in business services as a whole, which includes IT, is incoming for the next five years, with annual growth of 2.7%. (more…)

Welcome to the IT Contractors Poll.  The subject we are looking at today is what is your preferred method of contracting:

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This article is part of Jenrick CPI’s series on the beginners guide to IT Contracting. Being an IT Contractor is very different from being employed. You do not have the stability of permanent employment, but equally there are many advantages. In particular the financial rewards can make contracting very appealing as well as the variety of work. (more…)

At the end of last year, we noted a significant decrease in I.T. contractor rates.

Specifically, itjobswatch.com reported that they had monitored slippage of nearly 10% over the previous six months.

Yet there have been several reports throughout the I.T. industry that these economic uncertainties may actually help I.T. contract rates. The theory was that both permanent staff and contractors alike would be less willing to switch jobs, meaning employers needed to pay more to get people moving. (more…)

The following article has been written to provide an overview of trends in the Derivatives I.T. Jobs market for Canary Wharf and the City of London, for the final quarter of 2007 and beginning of 2008. (more…)

Pay for most freelance IT workers held steady in the economically fragile third quarter of last year, as average hourly rates in September matched those paid in January – according to a recent study by ATSCo, for view on the Contractor UK website. (more…)