Contractors' Questions: Which IT skills are hot as Christmas nears?

Contractor’s Question: What skills in the temporary IT labour market are considered to be sought-after, as we approach Christmas 2013?

Expert’s Answer:

Senior IT contracts

- Scrum Project Managers
- Finance Business Analysts

Infrastructure IT contracts

- VMware
- Desktop Migrations
- Windows XP

Development IT contracts

- Microsoft Development (MVC/WPF/WCF)
- CQ5
- Javascript

Business Application contracts

- Salesforce
- Oracle ERP
- Peoplesoft

Information Security contracts

- ISO27001
- PCIDSS
- Business Continuity

Business Intelligence and Data Management contracts

- Cadis
- Qlikview
- Data Scientists

The Expert’s Answer is based on IT recruitment agency Spring Technology’s Q3 2013 report, published last week.

Monday 16th Dec 2013

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