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11/10/2016
Over a million online adverts for digital jobs were placed in the UK in the first nine months of 2015, according to a recently published report, Tech Nation 2016. The average advertised salary for these roles was just under £50,000, 36% higher than the national average wage for all jobs the report suggests. The report identifies a number of tech ‘clusters’, finding that average advertised salaries in most of these increased by more than 10% between 2012 and 2015, with the highest advertised salary growth occurring in Leeds (growth of 29%), Newcastle and Durham (27%) and Sunderland (26%).
Skill shortages are limiting business growth in more than 40% of digital businesses and companies are recruiting from a diverse range of sources, including direct approaches to local universities and ‘poaching’ talent from a neighbouring digital cluster. Self-taught programming and in-house training remain the most common source of skills development for digital professionals, the report finds.
To read the Tech Nation 2016 report online, please visit: www.techcityuk.com/technation