Big data, cloud computing experts hard to hire, bosses admit

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Steve Ranger.

The UK will need another 300,000 IT workers by 2020, but already companies are finding it hard to recruit staff for security, mobile, green tech and cloud computing projects. According to the research by tech employers body e-skills UK nearly one fifth of all vacancies are difficult to fill due to skills shortages.

The report said the "digital sector" – which includes software, services and telecoms – contributes nearly £69bn to the economy. It said the UK has around 1.1 million IT workers with just under half working in technology companies, while the rest are most likely to be employed in finance and professional services, manufacturing or the public sector…

The report found that employment in the sector has risen by an average rate of 5.5 percent between 2009 and 2012, and 89 percent of jobs in the sector are located in England, seven percent in Scotland and two percent each in Wales and Northern Ireland…

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