It Skills in Demand in UK

According to a National Computing Centre report, demand for IT professionals is 7% greater than the people available and 2.8% greater than last year.

The hot skills in demand for IT Jobs, according to a survey by CompTIA are:

1. Programming and application development jobs. As companies continue to Web-enable their existing applications and make use of Web 2.0, demand is high right now for AJAX, .Net and PHP skills.

2. CIOs are seeking Project Managers who have wide experience overseeing complex projects delivering clear business benefits – rather than someone who has obtained a Project Management Professional (PMP) qualification.

3. Help desk/technical support are still very popular despite the outsourcing growth. As companies continue to expand their application portfolios, more help desk and technical support experts will be needed to support those systems.

4. IT professionals with Security credentials, such as intrusion-detection capabilities and government security clearances, but database and wireless security projects will drive that demand even higher this year.

5. Business analysts, business liaisons or application developers and other technicians with business-specific knowledge

6. A variety of networking skills are hot right now, including general network administration capabilities and network convergence, wireless and network security talents, as organizations collapse their voice and data networks with wireless and voice-over-IP technologies.

The trend for IT professionals is to emerge from being specialists in one technology area to being team members with broad knowledge. As networks and systems grow more sophisticated, IT staff are expected to have well rounded skills in many areas and able to apply that know-how to the business. Job seekers also need to keep on top of training and skills if they want to get ahead.