IT recruitment reaches its peak

Local authorities see budgets stabilise

The boom in IT recruitment in local authorities is over, as budgets stabilise following five years of investment in egovernment, according to new research.

The study by user group Socitm, IT Trends in Local Government 2006/7, looks at how the move to delivering online public services has affected councils’ abilities to sustain a state of change and modernisation.

IT recruitment had been growing steadily in the sector, though has now stabilised due to shrinking budgets.

‘For the past five years the IT functions in local authorities have been taking on more staff.

Several thousand new jobs have been created through this period. But this year’s results suggest that this growth has come to an abrupt end,’ the report says.

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