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IT Jobs in the City releases skills in demand data

IT professionals are still being hired by financial institutions despite the uncertain economic outlook. Recent data released by financial online recruitment specialists, IT Jobs in the City (www.itjobsinthecity.com) reveals the following:

* A steady demand for positions within commodities, with an increase over 50 percent in positions advertised from October 2007
* An increase in demand for quantitative analysts
* Little to no change in the demand for positions within the middle office, securities, analyst developers, system support, web developers and IT workers with skills in Oracle and SAS over the last three months

Adam Stokes, operations manager said: “Despite the gloom within the City, we are still seeing demand for IT workers. Providing IT support for compliance projects such as MIFID, as well support within risk management will be critical over the coming months. IT workers within the City are seen as a valuable resource, and we don’t expect that to change.”

IT Jobs in the City is part of The IT Job Board (www.theitjobboard.co.uk) group of companies.

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About www.itjobsinthecity.com

www.itjobsinthecity.com is an online job site dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals within the banking and financial services sector and aims to provide candidates with a one stop shop for finding all levels of IT roles within the sector. Organisations can draw upon a repository of over 50,000 IT professionals with financial services expertise registered on their database. www.itjobsinthecity.com’s clients include Bloomberg, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and UBS.

About www.theitjobboard.co.uk

www.theitjobboard.co.uk is part of The IT Job Board group of companies, which was set up in April 2002 in recognition that recruitment in the IT sector was increasingly dominated by the internet. It is now one of the leading IT specific job boards in the UK and Europe.

Online technology enables sophisticated targeting - for example by skill, region or experience - of www.theitjobboard.co.uk’s database of 650,000 IT professionals. It also offers employers services such as branded job postings, a featured employer zone, targeted email campaigns and guidance on advertising copy. The IT Job Board’s managed campaign service filters responses to provide companies with a shortlist of applicants most suitable for the advertised position.

www.theitjobboard.co.uk’s clients include Accenture, Bloomberg, the British Council, Cap Gemini, Cisco Systems, Dell, IBM, Imperial College, LogicaCMG, Norwich Union, Notting Hill Housing Group, the Peabody Trust, Roche, Sage, T-Mobile and the University of Manchester.

For more information, please contact:
Kate Alexander
IT Job Board PR
T: +44 (0)20 8946 3739
E: kate {at} alexanderpr.co(.)uk