Regardless of the variety of unfilled job vacancies within the tech sector falling by greater than a fifth within the latter months of 2022, there are nonetheless over 55,000 unfilled roles suggesting that expertise shortages are nonetheless plaguing the sector.

That’s in response to the Robert Half Jobs Confidence Index (JCI).

Created in affiliation with the Centre for Economics and Enterprise Analysis (Cebr), the brand new, quarterly Index is probably the most authoritative report on the important thing financial elements influencing confidence within the UK labour market.

The analysis reveals that, whereas the common variety of unfilled jobs vacancies within the sector fell by 21.4% yearly in quarter 4 2022, corporations – notably scaling tech companies and start-ups – are nonetheless going through massive challenges filling very important vacancies with the digital abilities they should stay aggressive.

The JCI additionally exhibits that common earnings within the sector had been up by 8.6% yr on yr, marking an acceleration from 6.3% in quarter three. Earnings within the sector had been greater than two-thirds larger (67.9%) than common pay throughout all industries. Whereas that is constructive information for expertise within the present local weather, it does recommend that employers are nonetheless having to entice candidates with inflated remuneration packages as demand stays excessive.

As Craig Freedberg, Regional Director Know-how, at Robert Half, commented: “Regardless of the information of layoffs in massive tech, and certainly our personal analysis exhibiting that the variety of unfilled tech roles has decreased, there is no such thing as a denying that corporations are nonetheless contending with abilities scarcity – notably start-ups and scaling entities. There are extra high-growth corporations within the UK than European friends, with 144 unicorns, 237 futurecorns and 85,000 start-ups and scale-ups being created. With massive tech now not aggressively recruiting we’re seeing a rebalancing in direction of SME companies which have – and proceed to – wrestle to supply expertise.

“In opposition to this backdrop candidates with the proper abilities set are actually within the driving seat, and employers are having to develop compelling attraction methods, not solely in relation to remuneration, but in addition broader advantages packages in what’s a talent quick surroundings.”