Demand for highly skilled professional workers faring better than rest of UK labour market

• Permanent vacancies for highly skilled professional workers up 7%
• Permanent vacancies for all workers up 4%
• London jobs market underperforming

Demand for highly skilled professional workers is significantly stronger than demand for workers across the UK labour market as a whole, according to new research commissioned by APSCo.

Permanent vacancies for highly skilled professional workers increased by 7% year-on-year in April – almost twice the rate of increase for all permanent vacancies across the entire labour market, which grew by 4%.

213,316 permanent jobs for highly skilled professional workers were advertised on job boards in April 2011, compared to 200,056 in April 2010. The analysis excludes public sector workers in the medical and education sectors, such as doctors and teachers.  

Ann Swain, Chief Executive of APSCo, comments: “While the number of highly skilled professional-level permanent jobs being advertised is up 7% compared to last April, the jobs market as whole is considerably more sluggish. There is always a shortage of talent – even during a period of sluggish growth. In many highly skilled sectors of the economy, such as IT, it is incredibly hard to source certain skills from within the UK.”

Article reproduced by kind permission of APSCo.
 

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