Vacancies across real estate and construction began the year positively, with January 2020 posting 11.2% more jobs year-on-year. That optimism, however, subsided quickly with the emergence of covid-19. Summer’s easing of lockdown coincided with July’s announcement of a stamp duty cut and a £3bn grant to make houses greener. The sector responded by ramping up vacancies that month to 2,713, up 93% compared to June.
As 2020 draws to a close, the impact of the covid crisis has been manifesting in a multitude of ways for people working in IT and Development specifically. Indeed, this can be seen in the fact that some companies are so actively embracing the change, that their IT roles are being promoted as remote, not just now, but after the COVID period is over too. From the latest analysis, over 6% of IT roles are being positioned as permanently remote.
According to Ponemon data breaches have cost UK businesses an average of £2.48million per instance, where increasingly businesses of all sizes are being targeted. Indeed, recent research by Hiscox, around 65,000 attempts to hack small- to medium-sized businesses occur in the UK every day, of which, around 4,500 of which are successful. The factor that in a recent study by ISC, it was found that…
Robert Walters – one of the leaders in recruitment for Financial Services and Technology – and Vacancy Soft – trusted provider of lead generation, client intelligence, and market analysis for the recruitment industry – have partnered together to conduct an extensive data analysis of job vacancies and…
The UK Banking and Financial Services sector is facing a year like none other as the twin events of both Brexit and COVID-19 take eff ect. The sector has already had to adjust to the possibility of a no deal trade agreement between the UK and EU, and yet now finds itself in …
