Current feel for the IT job market?

[NickK]

In terms of new opportunities, it seems pretty dead. A lot of competition for roles advertised too.

In the past when I've seen this, the company signs off budget and gets the job reqs out to recruitment but then mystically the roles are never filled. What happens behind the scenes is the budgets are put on hold, or delayed/cut but nobody says anything (or they could be sued or look incompetent).

 

[Worthy]

The market is incredible at the moment! What area of I.T do you work in?

 

[NickK]

Mainly digital transformation, services with a smatter of consultancy/advisory.

 

[datalol-jack]

People are dragging their heels on the digital transformation bit? Security and data are always strong; other areas have peaks and troughs depending on where you're and how hot the economy is at any given time. If we include software development and business analysis under 'IT' then that's almost never dead.

But still, new budgets should be kicking in wherever these are set to the financial year rather than the calendar year, so I'd redouble the search around that time as managers will have more certainty over what they are actually getting for the slog ahead.

 

[Semple]

We must have taken on about 50 new software devs in the last 12 months. The market is far from dead.

 

[HangTime]

Seems bouyant over the past year. Last two jobs I've taken I didn't apply for, just came through approaches on LI.

 

[mid_gen]

Market is on fire in my sector....I've never had such an easy job move as the one I'm starting next week. I didn't even need to send them a CV Take your pick of the offers in your linkedin inbox and name your price, pretty much. Huge skills shortage in the UK.

 

[Relentless81]

I don't understand how everyone finds it so easy to move around.

I just get loads of spam in my LinkedIn box for cloud engineer and I'm not a cloud engineer!

I'm also crap at interviews, crap at theory and crap at selling myself so that doesn't help

 

[MrRockliffe]

I don't understand how everyone finds it so easy to move around.

I'm also crap at interviews, crap at theory and crap at selling myself so that doesn't help

If you have a decent profile on LinkedIn, can demonstrate good competency in technical and soft skills, it can be quite easy to move around.

 

[Worthy]

I don't understand how everyone finds it so easy to move around.

I just get loads of spam in my LinkedIn box for cloud engineer and I'm not a cloud engineer!

I'm also crap at interviews, crap at theory and crap at selling myself so that doesn't help

Take some interviews then, they need practise to get good at like anything else.

 

[martin363]

My wife is an IT recruiter, she says it is an employees market at the moment, more so than the last 20+ years, she says it is incredibly difficult to get good candidates, and there are loads of roles available, the issue is 70% of potential candidates are not actively looking and have to be found and enticed away from their current (secure) roles.

Best time to be in the IT game for 20 years if people want to move. She says the game is skewed by the big 5, Microsoft, Google, Apple etc. who can afford to offer incentives and packages the other firms cannot compete with.

Makes recruiting very hard at the moment, but it is an employees market!

(and LinkedIn is your key, and specialist recruiters)

 

[chroniclard]

I wasn't really looking but a friend sent me a job spec just before Christmas, was mostly happy in current role but lack of progression/pay rises = I started last week.

 

[AndyCr15]

it is an employees market at the moment

Having only been in IT for a month... I have nothing to compare against, but I'm being told it's so hard to recruit decent developers at the moment. Online has exploded in the last 2 years due to Covid, our team has apparently increased by around 300%. If other companies are in a similar position, it's no surprise we're struggling to recruit, the demand must simply outweigh the resource.

I'm trying to secure a role in this new field before redundancy in April, but at the same time, I'm not overly worried. Even with my very limited experience, it looks like there's so much opportunity out there, hopefully I will be okay.

Also, my brother's a developer that got made redundant about 2 weeks ago. He had two interviews before being given a job offer... not exactly hard for him.

 

[RobHu]

Software seems to be on fire, recruiters don't bat an eye if I tell them I want 30-40% more than what I would've considered a close to top end (outside of finance/US tech) salary a year ago. Must be getting 10 DMs on linkedin each week, and my profile isn't set to looking for work. My own company are finding it quite difficult to recruit and suffering a bit of attrition.

 

[NickK]

Having only been in IT for a month... I have nothing to compare against, but I'm being told it's so hard to recruit decent developers at the moment. Online has exploded in the last 2 years due to Covid, our team has apparently increased by around 300%. If other companies are in a similar position, it's no surprise we're struggling to recruit, the demand must simply outweigh the resource.

I'm trying to secure a role in this new field before redundancy in April, but at the same time, I'm not overly worried. Even with my very limited experience, it looks like there's so much opportunity out there, hopefully I will be okay.

Also, my brother's a developer that got made redundant about 2 weeks ago. He had two interviews before being given a job offer... not exactly hard for him.

Back in 1997 that was the same for me. However the last time I've seriously coded was 2005. I still code on the odd occasion but I've become a generalist in delivery, operations and innovation at most levels in an organisation after learning to swim on the job rather than have the qualification. The last true qualifications were a BSc in Software Engineering and an examination based product management course back in 2007.

I have noted one reference to Ethereum was misspelt on my CV this morning after giving it a refresh including running it through Grammarly professional which did highlight a couple of issues after rewording. I do find that Grammarly is a little sensitive to input structure. The result is it may not highlight something incorrect in a bullet list unless something else is altered.

 

[Screeeech]

Seems pretty turbulent at the moment, lots of people are leaving, we're interviewing for lots of roles, lots of churn right now,

 

[shifty_uk]

Can't find good developers, operations people or marketers anywhere in the UK. Those that are available (via recruitment firms head hunting) are asking for insane salaries that SME's simply can't support long-term.

We're having to offshore work with a view of establishing offices in Europe.

So in answer to the question, there should be an abundance of opportunities for IT.

If there's any project managers or programmers looking for opportunities, hit me up

 

[NickK]

Can't find good developers, operations people or marketers anywhere in the UK. Those that are available (via recruitment firms head hunting) are asking for insane salaries that SME's simply can't support long-term.

We're having to offshore work with a view of establishing offices in Europe.

So in answer to the question, there should be an abundance of opportunities for IT.

If there's any project managers or programmers looking for opportunities, hit me up

Lots of EU development capacity! So either companies get taxed by Brexit or have to pay the price for Brexit inflation here.

 

[Worthy]

Seems pretty turbulent at the moment, lots of people are leaving, we're interviewing for lots of roles, lots of churn right now,

They're all off to Azure pal

 

[Screeeech]

They're all off to Azure pal

Hopefully! as it means I can ask for more RSUs

Unfortunately I think it's impossible for me or anyone else from AWS to go to Azure, we sign like the biggest non-compete ever!