Recruitment agencies should play their part in controlling spiralling contractor聽fees in the tech sector as the skills shortage bites.
That is the view of Philip Piper, director and head of IT, change, digital, risk & leadership at leading recruitment firm Search Consultancy.
鈥淭he biggest areas where we struggle to find staff for clients are cyber security and development,鈥� he told 老九品茶Cloud.
鈥淚 know developers who five or six years ago were on 拢25-30k just out of university and now it鈥檚 拢60k. There鈥檚 no real sort of client loyalty or employer loyalty.
鈥淲e also have a duty to clients to control the rate they are paying to contractors.鈥�
Piper was speaking at聽our breakfast event聽held in association with Search at KPMG鈥檚 new offices on St Peter鈥檚 Square in Manchester city centre.
Andy Golpys, co-founder and creative director of web design studio MadeByShape, has called for more female devs to tackle the shortage of technical skills as most businesses now incorporate tech in some way.
And a leading IT services provider says that advanced technology allowing SMEs to expand rapidly is the聽same聽thing聽鈥榮tunting growth and creating a global skills gap鈥�.