IT jobs market on the mend

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said the worst of the recession has now passed and that the number of IT jobs — permanent and contract — is rising. The REC published the results on Wednesday in a report released jointly with accountancy firm KPMG.
The report stated that ‘IT and computing’ was the fastest growing sector for permanent jobs in the UK, out of eight studied. The REC gave the sector a score of 65.1 for March, where a figure above 50 means the number of jobs has grown since the previous month. For contract jobs, IT and computing came second, with a score of 58.5.

According to the report, both figures represent an improvement on the situation one year ago, when the UK was in the trough of the recession, and the number of jobs was falling at sharpest In March 2009, both indices showed falling recruitment, with a figure of 32.9 for permanent jobs and 32.5 for temporary staff.