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Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'

News Cobol skills are worth the most in the market, according to the survey - commanding an average wage of £41,870 - while Cisco skills languish at the bottom of the pay-scale, yielding £32,320. UK IT workers are not letting economic woes get them down...

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

2007 IT Salary and Skills Survey: What Impacts Salaries?

whitepaper This report from Global Knowledge details the key factors that impact salaries in the IT industry. It includes a detailed listing of salaries by job function, industry, and education level. Based on responses from over 1,600 IT professionals, the...

Tags: global knowledge, salaries, job, function

[30 Apr 2008]

e-Learning Benchmark Survey: The Future of Learning

whitepaper Take an in-depth look at how employees use e-learning; when and where they do it; what specific skills e-learning has enabled them to develop; how these skills have been put into practice in the workplace; and whether the knowledge gained is...

Tags: online - distance education, learning, skills, employees

[22 Apr 2008]

Wanted: Women must save IT industry

News A survey of CIOs last year projected skill gaps in every area of IT by 2010, with the largest rift in business intelligence and business process improvement. Women hold the key to plugging a critical skills shortfall that is affecting the entire UK...

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

Recession fears hit IT budgets

Comment The state of the economy and its potential impact on IT budgets will be the key challenge for IT chiefs this year along with the ongoing war for tech talent, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey.

Tags: cio agenda

[04 Apr 2008]

2007 IT Salary and Skills Survey: What Impacts Salaries?

whitepaper This report from Global Knowledge details the key factors that impact salaries in the IT industry. It includes a detailed listing of salaries by job function, industry, and education level. Based on responses from over 1,600 IT professionals, the...

Tags: hr, global knowledge, salaries, job

[31 Mar 2008]

Invest in staff training, businesses told

News A recent research report polling UK grads and school leavers backs up this view of 'training-shy' employers - just 12 per cent of the 1,000 survey respondents said they had received any formal training at work.

Tags: skills, training, innovation, education

[17 Mar 2008]

Security skills top IT chiefs' wish-lists

News Three-quarters of IT managers rate security as the most important skill for IT pros to have, according to a survey of more than 3,500 bosses by tech industry body CompTIA. The results also reveal there is a significant skills gap in countries...

Tags: security, wireless, skills, rfid

[13 Mar 2008]

IT skills shortage hits 10-year high

News Perceived shortages in the industry jumped from 4.2 per cent last year to 6.8 per cent this year, the national survey of IT salaries and employment trends found. The IT sector is suffering its worst shortage of skills for a decade, according to new...

Tags: it, skills shortage, skills, workers

[11 Feb 2008]

India to train thousands more cyber cops

News The growing confidence in outsourcing to provide data security marks a shift in perception from a survey by analysts Gartner in 2005 that found security and privacy were once of the biggest fears among companies considering outsourcing.

Tags: india, data security, nasscom, police

[06 Feb 2008]

Bored and underpaid? You're not alone…

News Skills Survey Find out the exclusive results of silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey: & The company said bookings for its ComDepTIA's A+ and Network+ courses - which provide skills for a variety of desktop support and admin roles - are up 45 per...

Tags: skills, techies, jobs

[17 Jan 2008]

India top choice for UK outsourcing

News Indian outsourcing companies were ranked in four out of the top five positions for client satisfaction in the survey of 320 of the UK's top IT spenders. He said global suppliers such as Accenture, HP and IBM would have to play catch-up to match the...

Tags: china, outsourcing, india, interfaces

[11 Jan 2008]

Demand for tech workers hits six-year high

News Skills Survey 2007 Find out the exclusive results of this year's silicon.com Skills Survey: &  Hot skills during 2007 that were increasingly listed as requirements in permanent job adverts included expertise in the programming language...

Tags: skills, rec, salaries, it workers

[08 Jan 2008]

Highways Agency inks £75m outsourcing deal

News Skills Survey 2007: the resultsFind out from this year's Skills Survey: & The Highways Agency has awarded Atos Origin a £75m contract to manage its IT infrastructure and applications over the next five years.

Tags: outsourcing, atos origin, highways agency, agency

[03 Jan 2008]

NHS trusts outsource financials and procurement IT

News Skills Survey 2007: the resultsFind out from this year's Skills Survey: & A consortium of NHS trusts and Strategic Health Authorities in the north of England has outsourced its financials and procurement IT in a contract worth £16.45m over...

Tags: outsourcing, shared services, nhs, programme

[21 Dec 2007]

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.

Tags: bric, offshoring, outsourcing, 2007

[18 Dec 2007]

Top 10 skills stories of the year

News Skills Survey 2007: Industry falling out of love with IT grads The quality of computer science graduates is falling, according to results from this year's silicon.com Skills Survey. Meanwhile silicon.com's ninth Skills Survey took the annual...

Tags: skills, flexible working, wfh, techies

[17 Dec 2007]

Top 10 financial services stories of the year

News Skills Survey 2007: Banks hardest hit by staff crisis Half the readers responding to silicon.com's Skills Survey from the FS sector said they had roles they were unable to fill, mainly because of a shortage of applicants with the necessary...

Tags: mifid, apacs, lloyds, gartner

[17 Dec 2007]

Tech skills not valued by businesses

News A plethora of 'softer' skills - such as planning, communication and problem solving - are all valued more highly by top business leaders in the UK today, according to a survey. More than half of respondents to the survey said interpersonal and team...

Tags: skills, bill gates, it, survey

[14 Dec 2007]

easyJet outsources helpdesk support

News Skills Survey 2007: the resultsFind out from this year's Skills Survey: & easyJet has outsourced its IT helpdesk support to the IT services division of facility management and utility support group Alfred McAlpine for the next three years.

Tags: helpdesk, outsourcing, easyjet, survey

[14 Dec 2007]

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