Thursday 15th May 2008
IT industry in search for skilled staff
 As the IT sector continues to grow, it's finding it increasingly difficult to recruit enough staff to join its onward march.
According to a survey by the Confederation of British Industry, six out of ten employers are struggling to find new IT staff.
Reports based on research by e-skills, released in January, found that the UK will need 140,000 new skilled IT and telecommunications workers per year, for the next five years to keep pace with predicted levels of growth.
Phil Renton, of Newcastle firm Croft Technology, has noticed a change in staff availability over recent years.
"All the IT companies are holding on to their staff so there's not as much movement and if everyone's fishing from the same stream, then there's less fish to go round," he said.
Earlier this year Vodafone's chief executive, Nick Read, told IT Week that: "we need to transform technology-related education and capture in the curriculum the excitement that students already have for technologies in their daily lives."
In the meantime, some large companies are forced to look abroad for skilled labour, with Chinese and Indian IT professionals among those set to benefit from the UK's boom.
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