IT workforce at all-time high, claims NoPalaver
30 July 2013
The UK’s IT workforce is the largest it has been since records began in 1978, showing a strong recovery from the recession to include 719,000 people in total.
Tue, 30 Jul 2013The UK’s IT workforce is the largest it has been since records began in 1978, showing a strong recovery from the recession to include 719,000 people in total.
This is according to analysis of Office for National Statistics data by contractor accountants NoPalaver Group, which reveals a total of 719,000 self-employed and employed UK IT workers in the 12 months to the end of March this year.
This is up 11% year-on-year, and is the third year of growth. In 2007, the IT workforce totalled 582,000, with the early recession stunting growth slightly, and an extra 7,000 joining the IT world in 2008, and an extra 6,000 in 2009. In 2010, the number of IT workers dropped by 7% to 555,000.
Graham Jenner, director at NoPalaver, says: “There has been a perception that IT jobs would all be offshored to India and other cheaper economiesm and that new opportunities in this country would more or less dry up.”
“There is still plenty of offshoring of IT jobs, but that is being outweighed by the dynamism of the UK IT sector. There are few successful UK businesses where the IT and the internet are not central to their expansion plans.”
This is according to analysis of Office for National Statistics data by contractor accountants NoPalaver Group, which reveals a total of 719,000 self-employed and employed UK IT workers in the 12 months to the end of March this year.
This is up 11% year-on-year, and is the third year of growth. In 2007, the IT workforce totalled 582,000, with the early recession stunting growth slightly, and an extra 7,000 joining the IT world in 2008, and an extra 6,000 in 2009. In 2010, the number of IT workers dropped by 7% to 555,000.
Graham Jenner, director at NoPalaver, says: “There has been a perception that IT jobs would all be offshored to India and other cheaper economiesm and that new opportunities in this country would more or less dry up.”
“There is still plenty of offshoring of IT jobs, but that is being outweighed by the dynamism of the UK IT sector. There are few successful UK businesses where the IT and the internet are not central to their expansion plans.”
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