IT jobs market still a solid performer

Recruitment for research jobs held steady last year in spite of the downturn and demand was especially high for certain skills, a new recruitment survey has found.

The Robert Walters Global Salary Survey

According to the Robert Walters Global Salary Survey, organisations replaced key staff and recruited for business-critical roles. Business analysts and software developers were especially in demand between April and September. The reason for this is that projects that had been postponed in 2009 were begun again and companies invested in their IT systems.

IT professionals with strong web-based experience were in demand in quarter four, which Robert Walters attributed to the trends of cloud computing and social networking in business. 

“We anticipate this trend to continue into 2011 as demand for these professionals continued to grow while quarter four of 2010. Many innovation firms that committed to Ireland in 2009 and 2010 have strong growth plans for 2011 and the IT recruitment market is expected to remain buoyant,” she said.

The demand side may be healthy

The demand side may be healthy, now the question is whether there are sufficient numbers of skilled people to fill the vacancies. Many innovation firms are currently hiring yet say they are finding it difficult to recruit the right staff.