The rate of growth is five times faster than other sectors in the UK and means that over half a million new IT and Telecoms professionals will be needed over the next five years. 110,000 new staff will be needed this year alone in order to keep pace with demand, half of these will move into the sector from other occupations with around 17 per cent drawn directly from education. The jobs created will be high value roles requiring sophisticated business skills alongside a high level of technical competence. Karen Price, Chief Executive of e-Skills UK commented that more young people were required in the industry. "There is a particular need for a new type of development programme that helps young people move easily into IT roles" she said, adding that continued action was needed "to attract talent from all sources, particularly women". According to careers website Prospects women are severely under-represented in the sector with only 18 per cent of the workforce being female. This means that opportunities for women are extremely promising, especially given the existence of various support groups for female IT graduates such as the British Computer Society group 'BSC Women'.
Within the retail sector, demand for IT professionals has risen by 46 per cent over the last six months of 2010 according to specialist recruitment agency ReThink Recruitment. The firm says that those professionals with experience of multi-channel and e-commerce are IT are being deterred from moving away from their current employers by the lure of 15-20 per cent pay increases, particularly project managers and business analysts. ReThink attribute this to a current programme of upgrading and replacement.
Another growth area is the demand for computer security professionals as attacks on systems proliferate and security firms estimate this will increase as the movement towards cloud computing gathers pace. According to research company Frost & Sullivan, around half of the current generation of security experts believe their skills will be in greater demand as cloud computing becomes more popular. Last autumn the company conducted research among 7,547 information security workers employed in security education firms. John Colley from EMEA estimated that over half of those employees are already using cloud systems while Frost & Sullivan's research suggested that many believe exposure of sensitive information due to unauthorised systems or personnel or data leakage to be among the top concerns about cloud. Colley also commented that cyber attacks were one of the top concerns for workers in government and the public sector.
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