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IT Salaries in the UK rise by 5% report CV Screen

A comprehensive study by the IT Recruitment specialist CV Screen has found that permanent IT salaries in the UK have risen by 5% over the last 12 months, with the average salary for an IT professional now £38,946.

The detailed survey of the IT Jobs market looked at a broad spectrum of 50 IT roles and monitored over 7,000 advertised positions in the UK during the first quarter of 2011 and compared the figures with the same period in the previous year.

CV Screen’s Matthew Iveson commented “The rise in IT salaries can partly be attributed to the recovery of the economy and the IT jobs market over the past 12 months. Employers are gaining increasing confidence and therefore have larger recruitment and salary budgets than they did a year ago. Rather than cutting back on staff, we are now seeing employers looking to grow the size of their workforce and offer more competitive salaries.”

CV Screen observed that the number of registered vacancies had increased dramatically (by over 25%) between Quarter 1 2010 and Quarter 1 2011. Iveson commented “This increase is very encouraging and is a further reflection of the continued improvement of the IT jobs market. However, it must also be noted that that number of applications per role has actually dropped by around 20%. "The employer driven market of a year ago is now shifting towards a candidate driven market, pushing salaries up" commented Iveson.

Iveson continued “Within certain areas of the IT Jobs market we are seeing a lack of good quality candidates, particularly within the .NET, PHP and Java development sectors. In order to attract the best calibre candidates, employers have been forced to offer higher salaries for these positions.”

Iveson concluded “Whilst it is difficult to make predictions for the next 12 months, we strongly believe that rising inflation and the increased cost of living will push IT wages up further and therefore the salary increase trend will continue well into 2012.”

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About CV Screen Ltd

Established in 2000, CV Screen is a leading IT Recruitment Agency which recruits for organisations throughout the UK.

As one of the UK’s leading IT Recruitment Agencies, our impressive client base includes Links of London, Essex County Cricket Club, Hackett Plc and Easy Group.

With fees of 12.5% of the basic salary for permanent recruitment, our service enables our customers to reduce their recruitment costs without compromising the quality of candidates they recruit.

For further information, please call us on 0845 200 8170

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