– Relative to other professional areas, recruiting for Audit positions has remained buoyant during 2020, despite the COVID-19 crisis, albeit with vacancies down by 23% across the country.
– Recruitment within Audit being less impacted can also be seen by the fact that in 2019, 15% of qualified Accounting roles were for Auditors, whereas in 2020 so far the percentage is 18%.
– The shift in hiring into regional offices continues, resulting in 56% of all Audit vacancies outside the Capital this year. Such has been the increase in recruiting regionally, that it is estimated that by the end of 2020 there will have been more Audit vacancies regionally than in 2018.
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There has been a gradual year on year increase in the recruitment of tax professionals between 2017 and 2019 due to the increased accountability on in-house tax professionals in the form of tax transparency and …
This year was already set to be tumultuous for people in finance, as the final negotiations of Brexit took shape. The fact that the UK is now outside of the single market reliant on equivalence clauses to allow services to be …
– Overall, the total number of vacancies for lawyers has risen by almost 19% in 2018.
– Within Private Practice, London especially has seen a significant uptick in hiring
– Demand for in-house lawyers has increased the most within TMT, up 42% year on year.
