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Skills Survey 2007: CIOs getting less cash?
News IT chiefs are rolling in slightly less filthy lucre than last year, according to the 2007 exclusive silicon.com Skills Survey. For software/web developers there has been a small jump in average earnings - perhaps reflecting industry demand for... [14 Aug 2007]
CIO Agenda: Skills shortages and vendor "bullshit"
News Vendor "bullshit", skills shortages and proving the value and credibility of IT to the business are the key challenges for IT chiefs this year, according to silicon.com's exclusive, third annual CIO Agenda survey. [17 Jan 2007]
Skills Survey 2003: The full UK results
News The full results of silicon.com's fifth annual skills survey are out. Which non-IT skills are in shortest supply at your workplace? Which IT skills are in shortest supply at your workplace? The skills shortage has resulted in me considering using... [27 Mar 2003]
Skills Survey 2005: Share your opinions
News silicon.com would like to know and to find out we have launched our seventh annual Skills Survey. We are asking for your opinions on business skills such as project management and leadership plus technical stuff such as programming languages. [09 Feb 2005]
Skills Survey 2007: Offshoring still a hot potato
News Offshoring is viewed with increasing ambivalence in the IT industry, according to the exclusive silicon.com 2007 Skills Survey. More than two-fifths of software/web developers responding to the silicon.com Skills Survey agree or strongly agree... [21 Aug 2007]
Skills shortage at two-year low
News The IT skills shortage is at a two-year low as UK employers are finding it easier to net people to fill tech roles, according to e-skills UK. Only six per cent of IT recruiters surveyed reported difficulties finding staff with the required tech... [26 Apr 2007]
Skills Survey 2006: IT workers lured into contracting
News Lucrative fees have tempted an increasing proportion of UK IT workers into becoming contractors, according to silicon.com's exclusive 2006 Skills Survey. Rising pay is one of the factors that has lured workers into the contractor lifestyle and the... [01 Jun 2006]
Skills Survey 2007: Techies don't fear offshoring
News Fears of tech jobs being offshored appear to be over-hyped, according to preliminary results from the exclusive silicon.com 2007 Skills Survey. The survey also sheds light on a perennial debate - whether it's business or technical skills that are... [20 Jul 2007]
Skills Survey 2006: Does the board respect IT?
News In silicon.com's exclusive 2006 Skills Survey, just over half (58 per cent) of board directors and CEOs, COOs and CFOs said they value the ideas of IT directors and IT managers. Read more Skills Survey results: [30 May 2006]
Warning over migrant tech skills shortage
News According to the report, the population of highly skilled international software professionals jumped by 26,000 in the UK between 2000 and 2007 as "the almost universal rollout of computing and internet facilities increased the demand for... [25 Mar 2008]
In demand: Tech needs web services skills
News The design and management of these new corporate networks will require certain skills - in things like protocol offload, caching and application firewalls - that companies may currently lack. Because these skills are in short supply, organisations... [25 Mar 2008]
Skills shortage could freeze India's outsourcing success
News The head of India's IT trade body Nasscom has said that the offshoring hot spot will soon suffer a skills shortage unless it revamps its education system. Speaking in Bangalore, the association's president, Kiran Karnik, said that the country wasn... [14 Sep 2004]
Tech skills not enough to be top dog
News From programmers to CIOs, the IT workforce needs to buff up their non-technical skills if they are to be seen as a driving force in business. Lineker told silicon.com IT execs need non-technical skills - such as management and leadership skills... [12 Apr 2007]
Techies "lack business and leadership skills"
News Techies lack the skills needed to operate at board level and be leaders of change and transformation within their organisations. Three-quarters of the 12-strong silicon.com CIO Jury IT user panel - conducted at the IT Directors' Forum last week... [13 Jun 2007]
RFID skills qualification gets thumbs-up
News The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has announced it's working on skills certification for RFID. With a recent report from the Association finding skills in the tracking tag arena sorely wanting, CompTIA has teamed up with... [09 Mar 2005]
