Increasing pressure on information security recruitment market
As with many areas of the economy, in the current economic situation IT spending is starting to be squeezed and this is having an impact on IT recruitment.
After a strong end to 2007, the first nine months of 2008 saw a drop in IT recruitment, with lower demand for IT security specialists. Public sector projects are slowing, which is causing a fall in demand from the consultancy sector, and pressures are being felt in many other areas.
However, this picture is balanced by increased awareness (particularly after some high profile security failures) of the importance of information security and the regulatory environment. Commercial end users are generally continuing to recruit and two major banks are supporting demand with large-scale security improvement programmes, so the overall drop in demand is not dramatic.
Currently there are few unemployed IT security specialists and those who have been made redundant are managing to secure either contract or permanent work. Salary increases have declined, but not drastically.
For a more detailed picture of the current information security recruitment market, please contact Mark Ampleford ma@barclaysimpson.com, Ruth Jacobs rj@barclaysimpson.com, Hugo Brown hb@barclaysimpson.com or Anthony Young ay@barclaysimpson.com on 020 7936 2601.
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