Contractors may want to head for the clouds of Scotland after enStratus announced it plans to set up operations in Edinburgh.
The cloud computing firm intends to create about 30 highly-skilled jobs in the Scottish capital within the next three years after receiving a Regional Selective Assistance grant.
The Edinburgh office has not yet opened, but the firm is already recruiting and contractors could be well placed to offer assistance until the company gets properly established.
Culture and external affairs secretary, Fiona Hyslop, said the skills of the Scottish workforce have made the country a force to be reckoned with when it comes to enterprise, innovation and technology and there is no doubt that this encouraged enStratus to set up its European base in Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, IT contractors may want to concentrate their job-hunting efforts online after Monster revealed that hiring in the sector is now at its highest level in more than four years. The Midlands has seen the greatest increase in online opportunities when viewed year-on-year, but job-seekers in Wales have witnessed a decrease in the number of companies recruiting online.
Julian Acquari, Monster’s MD for UK and Ireland, said the IT industry is going from strength to strength and this is really encouraging news. The overall outlook for the UK is still mixed, but at least 67% of industry sectors are growing and this suggests that online recruitment is picking up.
The latest Report on Jobs from the REC/KPMG also showed that the IT sector registered an increase in permanent hiring last month.
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Image: Somewhere in the Scotish Highlands – I can’t really remember where. by Rhys Davies Photography
