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News It's a different story for Sachdev, as freelancing also enables him to flex IT skills that are not required by his day job. Economic gloom and the rising cost of living in the UK is making IT workers in full time employment take on extra work... [22 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News Barclays has also promised there will be no more tech job losses this year outside of the offshoring initiative, Unite says. Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create centrally managed technology "centres of excellence... [14 Jul 2008]
UK games industry needs to go back to uni
News She said job applicants from overseas made up nine per cent last year but, up to July this year, are 27 per cent. The UK games industry needs to play a more active role in academia, helping to shape the syllabuses of university courses to ensure... [08 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Sun is doing a good job of maintaining [the] number one [position]. Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will... [02 Jul 2008]
Techies kept awake at night
News The survey says worry about work and job security tops the list of things keeping workers awake, with money worries and working late also fuelling sleepless nights. IT workers suffer more sleepless nights than most other professionals in the UK. [01 Jul 2008]
Flexible working still a stigma, say techies
News Although more than half (61.1 per cent) of the more than 900 IT workers polled do work flexible hours, almost half (45.2 per cent) of those think the industry has not adapted to flexible working, according to research conducted by online... [25 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News A job ad published in The Sunday Times reads: "We require [IT] Architects with technology domain experience; you will be responsible for ensuring a coherent solution architecture for specific business change programmes, encompassing business... [23 Jun 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News Mike Rodd, director of industry body the British Computer Society (BCS) Learned Society, which is driving an outreach campaign to schools to improve IT's image, said in a statement: "Greater exposure of young people to the merits of a job in the... [23 Jun 2008]
Tech failing to meet business expectations
News Need help securing the dream job? Tech teams are failing to meet around a quarter of service level agreements (SLAs) made with other business departments in their organisation. Although four out of five (81 per cent) of businesses adopt formal SLAs... [23 Jun 2008]
Tech workers part of the jet set
News International travel is increasingly becoming a part of the job for people working in IT, with jet set techies travelling around the world on work-related business. Nearly a quarter (24 per cent) of respondents said they travel internationally four... [23 Jun 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News This funding change slams the door on many who would otherwise look for some education to support their job change. The GVA per IT and telecoms job is three times the UK average, it added. IT is suffering from a well documented skills shortage... [20 Jun 2008]
'Chip and Bin' dumped by council
News But the council said that in the end the system "wasn't robust enough to cope", adding "when your first priority is to serve people by emptying their bins, you override the system, forget about losing the data, and get on with the job". [17 Jun 2008]
Loyal techies value ethics over pay
News A strong degree of commitment was shown in the research with 62 per cent of young managers in the IT sector saying they have been in their job for three years or more. Showing impressive loyalty, just 14 per cent said they would quit their job if... [11 Jun 2008]
IT salaries defy economic gloom
News Tech workers also enjoy better job security than staff in other departments. IT pay is rising faster than at any time in the past three years, according to a salary survey. Basic IT pay has risen by an inflation-busting 4.8 per cent in the year to... [10 Jun 2008]
iPhone 2.0 - ready for business?
News He told silicon.com: "If we look at the sorts of apps that business users want from their phone wireless email is right up there at the top of the list, and BlackBerry - RIM - has been doing a fantastic job without 3G for a number of years. [06 Jun 2008]
