Here's a summary of Jeremy's TOM Talks on recruitment activity for Technology & Data at the end of 2024

Market Overview

• Increased job flow, in line with growing TA teams as Clients build teams to meet forthcoming demand
• Tech contract roles available due to a large simplification project by one of the Big 4 Banks

Increased job flow in:

• Software Engineering and Development
• AI Engineers, Data Scientists, ML engineers - as Banks build out their AI teams
• Architecture - solution architecture and design

Skill sets in demand

• AI and machine learning
• Node as a software language (away from Java)
• Snowflake & Databricks – to build out cloud data platforms for warehousing
• DBT – for ETM and transformation of Data

Advice for candidates

• Salaries are static
• Majority of candidates are putting job security before salary

Advice for clients

• There will be more competition for talent now that the Big 4 Banks are hiring again.

If you would like to find out more, get in touch with a member of the Technology or Data teams