IT skills shortage looms

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IBM chief economist Keith Telford has estimated that the UK's IT sector must attract 250,000 additional staff each year over the next four years, in order to avoid a shortage crisis.

Telford said 10 per cent of new jobs created since the last recession are in IT-related fields. 'Taking the existing skills shortage as a starting point, we are looking at historical data from the ...

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