Demand for skilled IT professionals in the United Kingdom is expected to grow steadily as the recovery in the IT job market gathers speed. As a result, salaries have begun to rise again from where they last stabilized. Demand for contract staff is also rising. However, the trend is increasingly leaning toward shorter-term contracts, with three-month contracts now the norm.

IT skills most actively being demanded by employers include Windows, Oracle, UNIX, SQL, Java, .NET, C++, XML, SAP, CSharp, ASP and Project Management according to the website itjobswatch.co.uk . At this website analysts examine job advertisements for the last six months according to job title and skills then rank the results in declining order.

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