Research from technology recruitment agency ReThink has shown that IT recruitment within the public sector has yet to recover from the reduction of jobs last year.

The research indicated that only five percent of IT jobs in the UK exist within the public sector compared to 30 percent at the start of 2010.

Director of ReThink Recruitment, Michael Bennett, said: “The government’s austerity programme has had a devastating effect on the public sector’s recruitment of IT contractors.