Software Engineers in Demand again
But there are fewer looking. This is no surprise to us here at ash-associates.com I've been saying for years that a lack of graduates entering the IT market will create a future skills shortage and this is where we are now.
Many jobs remain unfilled particularly those using the older (Boring?) technologies which I have to include C++ and Java now. The big demand is for C# .NET and so candidates are keen to work in this environment abandoning the traditional Windows applications development.
As candidates move away from this technology so we follow with many of our newer jobs for C# and .NET developers, we also get many more web technology positions using JavaScript, Ajax and PHP being the keywords of the moment in recent job specs.
What happens now, well we are fortunate that some recent countries entering the EU have excellent engineers looking for work in the UK, those from Poland, Greece and Cyprus being of a high educational standard and with excellent skills. Our successes this year have been with candidates coming from these countries. For the future we expect more excellent candidates to come from Eastern Europe as more countries join the EU which adds the benefit of not requiring a work permit. This may also explain the reduced interest in candidates that require work permits, many of our clients no longer give us the option to consider candidates that require sponsorship now.
We suspect that the relocation of work to India is dropping off as we are contacted almost daily by companies in India seeking work for their development teams and consultants so we assume that new work is going elsewhere or staying in the UK/Europe.
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