Reports from KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) show that the IT job market continues to outperform against the overall jobs market.

The demand for staff in IT services has continued to rise in comparison to the difficulties facing the rest of the market.

Chief executive of REC, Kevin Green, commented that; “niche areas that are seeing much stronger growth than the national average. In every month this year the engineering and IT and computing sectors have seen solid increases in the number of workers.”