IT contractors may be pleased to learn that Tata Consultancy Services intends to hire around 1,500 British IT staff in 2012.
The Indian giant employes a total of 227,000 staff around the globe, 6,739 of whom are based in the UK. The company now intends to increase its headcount at its offices in Basingstoke, Glasgow and Leeds. British Airways is one of the companies that benefits from the services of Tata Consultancy.
TCS, along with other software companies from India, are increasingly bidding for both public and private sector contracts in the UK and we are now seeing an increasing number of Indian software companies recruiting in this country.
This is something of an about turn as up until recently a lot of UK IT jobs were outsourced overseas and software was developed in India and other Asian countries such as the Philippines.
Infosys and Wipro are among other Indian companies that are also hiring UK IT staff. If this trend continues, the big Indian companies could become a major force in the UK’s IT industry and this would be good news for IT staff and contractors.
All in all, the prospects are looking good for IT contractors. 20% of organisations intend to increase the amount of IT roles in their companies by 2017 and 15% say IT will be their main focus in the first few months of this year.
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