skills survey 2005 uk

BT embraces open source for business

News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 Take the survey now… Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. BT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open-source community and workgroup of the Linux Foundation. [25 Jul 2008]

Top 10 outsourcing stories of the year

News Skills Survey 2007: Offshoring still a hot potato The annual silicon.com skills survey found offshoring is still causing concern for some IT professionals, with a third of those surveyed saying they feel their job is threatened by offshoring. [18 Dec 2007]

Skills Survey 2007: Staffing crisis deepens

News The ninth annual Skills Survey reveals employers are finding it increasingly difficult to fill IT positions in their organisations. Half (48 per cent) of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed there is a skills crisis. [07 Aug 2007]

IT must pull together to battle skills shortage: Gov CIO

News Tell us what you think of the IT workforce in silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey. The technology industry needs an influx of more than 150,000 people per annum, according to e-skills UK and Gartner. The government's chief information officer has... [21 May 2007]

Blighty call centres boom in face of offshore threat

News Tell us what you think of the IT workforce in silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey. Is there a skills shortage? The UK call centre industry is continuing to boom despite the threat from lower cost offshore locations such as India, according to a new... [10 Apr 2007]

Kids shunning tech degrees

News Tell us what you think of the IT workforce in silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey. The uptake of IT-related degrees has almost halved within four years from 27,000 in 2001 to 14,700 in 2005, according to research from e-skills UK. [05 Apr 2007]

Students to earn UCAS points from IT training

News A 2005 survey conducted by Cisco and market researcher IDC predicted the UK will be short of 40,000 skilled IT employees by 2008. Students who complete a business-backed tech qualification will now be awarded UCAS points in a move aimed at reducing... [05 Feb 2007]

IT pros in need of more training, says survey

News More evidence has emerged that UK companies are facing a shortfall of IT skills, with many IT pros failing to be offered suitable training. E-Skills UK, an organisation that monitors the UK's information and communications sector, published its... [08 Jan 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]

'Hold software developers responsible for security'

News Schmidt also referred to a recent survey from Microsoft finding that 64 per cent of software developers were not confident they could write secure applications. He said he believes that many developers don't have the skills needed to write secure... [13 Oct 2005]

Offshoring not lowering IT wages

News According to a Foote Partners survey of 50,000 IT workers, pay for 89 non-certified and 87 certified technical skills grew 3.8 per cent and 1.3 per cent, respectively, in the first six months of 2005. [20 Jul 2005]

Leader: IT skills in the UK

Leader In silicon.com's 2005 Skills Survey, for instance, over half of respondents agreed there was a skills shortage while two-thirds said their businesses were able to fill IT vacancies. The industry group e-skills UK, which sits between government... [14 Jun 2005]

IT skills gap doesn't keep firms awake at night

Comment The IT skills gap is no big shakes, though most firms could plan their recruitment strategies better, according to a recent survey from e-skills UK. Just nine per cent of the 700 employers polled in e-skills UK's ICT Insights survey said there is a... [06 Jun 2005]

IT pros fear offshoring threatens their jobs

Comment The findings are based on silicon.com's 2005 Skills Survey, which was conducted in March and April 2005 and polled 1,386 silicon.com readers, most of whom work in the UK. According to silicon.com's 2005 Skills Survey, IT pros, IT consultants and... [09 May 2005]

Skills Survey 2005: 'Steady as she goes'

Comment This year's Skills Survey was conducted in March and April 2005 and polled 1,386 silicon.com readers, most of whom work in the UK. That old adage is the theme of silicon.com's seventh annual Skills Survey. [29 Apr 2005]

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