The reports from KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), have shown that while job vacancies are still increasing slowly, IT workers are in strong demand in comparison.

IT jobs that are in demand include business analysts, specialists in digital marketing, infrastructure, .NET, PHP, and SAP, along with project managers and IT architects.

Information supplied from the Office for National Statistics, shows that internet based recruitment rose by 4.6 percent in the first quarter of 2012, compared to overall job vacancies increases of 2.6 percent.