Latest research from specialist IT recruitment website CWJobs.co.uk and  reveals that job numbers and salaries show continued growth in IT sector with permanent salaries improving at the fastest rate for three years,   job postings for contract IT workers up 25% and Agile seeing a 59% increase in demand.

According to the study developers dominated the recruitment space, making up 41% of all IT jobs advertised by the final quarter of 2011. Contract IT personnel were also in high demand, with a 25% increase in year-on-year postings.

SQL was the most sought after skill in 2011; however, demand for software development methodology, Agile, went up by 59% in the number of permanent job postings over the year (Q4 2010 to Q4 2011), further demonstrating its widespread adoption in the industry.

28% more jobs were advertised in London year-on-year in thefinal quarter of 2011. The report flags that this relative increase may be due to the increased investment in the Tech City initiative in East London. By the end of 2011, 77% of all permanent jobs advertised were in the Southern and Western regions of England.

The public sector shows the probable impact of the goverment cuts with public sector IT roles experiencing nine consecutive quarters of decline, with a 16% decrease in jobs in the last quarter of 2011. However, following the significant drop in IT vacancies in in the financial sector in 2009 and 2008 due to the recession, this sector saw significant improvements in 2011 with 21% of all IT jobs.

Richard Nott, Website Director at CWJobs commented, ”In 2011 we saw a reasonable bounce in the sector. While there’s no denying the impact thee conomy has had on the rate of growth, these statistics show that there’s recovery happening and the private sector and the South East of England are leading this. 

“Last year the spotlight was on the IT industry, particularly on areas such as security and mobile. As new issues and opportunities continue to shape the sector, skills requirements and job opportunities will change accordingly.”

TheCWJobs.co.uk/ JobAdsWatch.co.uk data is based on key information taken from all the jobs advertised in the UK’s leading IT and multi-sector recruitment websites, together with jobs advertised in IT business magazines, as well asnational and selected regional press.

CV-Library, the popular UK job board, has launched its first London Underground advertising campaign.

The adverts will be visible in every tube on every line of the London Underground for 2 weeks from Monday 23rd January to Sunday 5th February 2012. It is estimated that the campaign will reach over 500,000 commuters and will be present in at least 1,000 carriages.

The addition of these tube panels supports CV-Library wider highly-targeted offline marketing campaign which includes local radio and the launch of their TV adverts.

Lee Biggins, Managing Director commented, “These are really exciting projects and a huge step forward for CV-Library; and we’re already seeing some great results! We want to continue to cement trust with the brand for both recruiters and candidates but more importantly re-engage with the 4 million registered users who already use CV-Library.”

To find more information about the CV-library campaign, click here.

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Evenbase  a new digital recruitment group based around the team behind the UK job board Jobsite has been launched.

Evenbase brings together many of the Jobsite partners into one brand offering. The portfolio includes the flagship job board brands Jobsite and Oilcareers, leading multi-poster and unified search provider Broadbean, as well as recruitment partnerships with brands such as Northcliffe Media, Johnston Press , 02 Active and the UK’s National Health Service recruitment portal, NHS Jobs.

Evenbase will create a central executive team and four business units. The Job boards division will focus on the delivery of solutions across the portfolio’s generalist, niche and vertical market job board brands. The Business Solutions division will focus on providing job board and recruitment software services to the Public and Private sectors. A New Ventures division will focus on the international expansion of key group assets and roll out of new business models and initiatives. The Recruitment Software division will provide recruitment software solutions for multi-posting, CV search, candidate matching and reporting tools.

Keith Potts - Evenbase

Evenbase Chief Executive Officer, says; “[The] announcement is a significant milestone in the group’s maturity as a business… It’s not surprising that our ambitions outgrew our structure and operating model along the way. Although many of our brands are already operating on the international stage, we see a far greater potential for Evenbase given the synergies of our portfolio as a whole.

“Evenbase gives us a solid foundation for both international expansion and the fulfilling of opportunities not only for our brands but also for our clients, partners and candidates. Day to day business will continue as normal for brands within the portfolio, while the Evenbase executive team will focus on our ambition to become a truly global digital recruitment group within three years.”

Find out more about Evenbase.

CV-Library’s new TV ad has debuted on TV. The 30 second ad is part of a six week campaign to be aired over 1,200 times on a wide range of premium digital channels. It is envisioned that the over the course of the campaign the ad will be viewed by 5.5 million ABC1 adults with a total of 22 million viewings.

Emap, the business-to-business multi-platform media group, has launched an iPhone app for their fashion job board Drapersjobs.com.

The iPhone app is an extension of Emap’s existing fashion recruitment portfolio providing access for recruiters to a network of over 212,000 fashion professionals across print and online. It follows the resoundingly successful NursingTimesJobs iPhone app launched in November 2011 that has received over 1,600 downloads in two months.

The app works across all iPhone platforms, including the iPhone 4S and allows jobseekers to browse job listings, apply for any role, receive notifications direct to their phone when any relevant jobs are added and email their favourite jobs to themselves and friends.

Tracey Davies Managing Director of Emap Recruitment, commented of the launch: “The iPhone app is another indication of our enterprising and innovative approach to recruitment and our commitment to providing clients and candidates with the most advanced platforms and best possible service. It is set to become an essential recruitment resource for both jobseekers and employers. The app benefits recruiters by increasing the candidates’ awareness of newly added roles. Candidates who have downloaded the Drapersjobs.com app are automatically informed of these new positions, straight to their handset.”

You can view and download the app here.

UK generalist site Jobsite returns to TV in January with a 4 week campaign across over 200 terrestrial and satellite channels.

Jobsite will be running a combination of 30 and 10 second TV adverts around a diverse range of programmes with the intention of reaching some 82.5% of the UK working population, with each individual seeing the ads an average of over 6 times.

When the campaign was first run on TV in January 2011 it generated record-breaking results, with both the highest number of visitors and highest number of applications in a day. TV has also been responsible for helping to increase Jobsite’s searchable CV database from 500,000 in September 2008 (pre TV) to 2.7million today.

The Jobsite TV advertising campaign will also be supported by online activity including search engine marketing, social media campaigns, display banners across leading UK sites, email activity and display retargeting ads. There will also be aheavy presence on mobile through Jobsite’s partnership with O2.

KeithPotts, Jobsite CEO, commented, “January is the busiest month of the year for people looking to change jobs and our campaign across multiple media channels is designed to reach them throughout the day so that we’re the first place they visit to find that new opportunity… “

Marriott International beat off stiff competition to be named the best hotel group employer in the United Arab Emirates at the first ever Catererglobal.com Best Employers in Hospitality Awards 2011 UAE in late December.

Catererglobal.com is a leading international hospitality jobs site for people looking for top hotel jobs. The event was hosted by Peter Willis, Sales Director at Catererglobal.com and was attended by 160 hotel managers and human resource directors from leading hotels within the UAE. 

The awards were voted for by some 24,000 hotel professionals in the UAE. Nour Arjaan by Rotana scooped the best four-star hotel (small) award, while the Millennium Airport Hotel Dubai walked away with the best four-star hotel (large) trophy. In the five-star awards, the Ritz-Carlton Dubai emerged victorious in the small hotel category, while the Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort and Towers claimed the award for best large five-star hotel. The best restaurant award was tightly fought, with Bite Café narrowly beating Wild Ginger to the trophy.

The final prize of the evening was for best hotel group employer which was won by Marriott International (including The Ritz-Carlton) ahead of Hilton Worldwide, Rotana Hotels, Jumeirah Group and Starwood Hotels and Resorts. 

Peter Willis, Sales director at Catererglobal.com, said of the event: “The first ever Best Employers in Hospitality Awards UAE have proven to be a great success – from the huge numbers of people who voted through to the wonderful evening where we celebrated those employers who are truly great, who are a shining light for the rest of the industry. We look forward to even better things in 2012, not only from the Best Employers in Hospitality Awards UAE, but also from the employers themselves.” 

Leading generalist job board CV-Library is debuting its first ever TV campaign in January 2012.

The six week campaign will see the 30 second advert being aired over 1,200 times on a wide range of premium digital channels. The first advert will air on Monday 9th January during Dragons’ Den at 6pm on Dave, and then go one to be viewed by 5.5 million ABC1 adults with a total of 22 million viewings.

CV-Library engaged the creators of the massively successful MoneySupermarket.com and Confused.com to create a hard-hitting, highly responsive advert.

“Our advert doesn’t include any hidden messages like so many do these days,” says Lee Biggins, Managing Director of CV-Library. “Instead, we’ve created a very simple message which is ultimately designed to drive  candidates directly to the site. We’re demonstrating to candidates how quick and easy it is to apply  for jobs online.”

The adverts guide the user through the site, from uploading a CV to searching and applying for jobs and demonstrating the variety of jobs available across all  sectors.

The TV spot complements a broader multi-platform campaign that already includes radio advertising as well as an underground  advertising campaign in London that will ensure a a presence on every tube, on every line of the underground.

“These are really exciting projects and a huge step forward for CV-Library,” says Lee Biggins. “We hope to see some great results! We want to continue to cement trust with the brand for both recruiters and  candidates but more importantly re-engage with the 4 million registered users who already use CV- Library.”

Find out more about the TV campaign

61% of IT pros believe there is currently a skills shortage in the UK and that this is preventing the UK IT industry from competing with the US a survey from CWJobs.co.uk has found.

Despite Britain being perceived as a leading European market in terms of having the best job prospects, being the best place to study IT and leader the IT industry, the survey of 1,300 IT professionals revealed that showed that they believe that more must be done if  the UK is to compete the the US. 

The survey revealed three things needed to tackle skills shortage in the UK:

• Encourage more businesses to offer IT apprenticeships (28%)
• Get the Government to invest more in IT degrees and training courses (18%)
• Improve the quality of secondary and further IT education (20%)

Richard Nott, Website Director at CWJobs comments, “It’s been a year since the Tech City initiative was announced, and this has undoubtedly helped to position London as the Digital Capital of Europe. However if we are to take on Silicon Valley it’s imperative that the Government invests in helping young IT pros to skill-up, as well as investing in tech businesses. If the Government fails to do this, our IT specialists may be tempted to move abroad for better pay or to improve their skills set, which we can’t afford to risk.”