More than a third (36%) of UK companies plan to increase the number of IT jobs and technology professionals that they hire during the first half of 2015, new research from specialist IT recruiter Robert Half Technology has revealed.
UK CIOs say that this growth in demand is being fuelled by the need to expand teams to cope with new IT projects and initiatives (62%), moving to cloud based infrastructure (51%) and product or service expansion (40%). Business growth is encouraging a further 28% of businesses to source more IT professionals in 2015.
The rate at which companies will hire new IT professionals will accelerate still further in the second half of the year, with 41% of CIOs predicting that they will take on new staff....