In contrary to the report of IT contract demand ‘dwindling’, Jenrick has noticed a sharp increase in demand from the Finance sector, with Q1 contract bookings from the finance sector being at their highest for over 18 months. Other areas of significant growth included; online marketing & transactional business, general media, IT security, and more surprisingly the defence sector.

Our clients have been motivated to engage IT contract expertise to re-boot projects that have been in ‘doldrums’. With all the signs that the UK is in the throes of recovery, clients find they have a need to regain their competitive edge and ’steal a march’ on other players in their sector. On of the key drivers of business development is innovation, and a key driver of innovation is IT. (more…)

Permanent - Market Highlights authored by Matt Hancock, Jenrick IT

Throughout 2010 we have seen a demand in a wide variety of skills across the board as many of our clients have been looking to deliver on projects put on hold throughout 2009.
Project delivery is still of extreme importance to many of our clients and the launch of various development projects and new application releases are considered critical to remain competitive and moving into 2011.
There has been a large increase in demand for permanent candidates with skills in the following 5 areas:

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Demand for professional contractors has continued to increase, together with the numbers of contractors who seem to be preferring the Limited Company course of contracting.

Philip Fanthom (Managing Director, Jenrick IT) commented:
“we have not seen this level of contract activity since 2007. Demand has been increasing month on month since October last year. In addition, we have noticed a sharp increase in rates for some skills, in particular; developers with C++, C#, and Java” (more…)