Banking jobs 'will be key area for work in 2010'

Banking jobs will be a key provider of employment for IT workers in 2010, it has been suggested.

The IT Job Board carried out a poll of professionals seeking IT work, which revealed that almost half (48 per cent) believe banking jobs will be their principal means of employment next year.

Some 42 per cent believed that software and IT services would provide the greatest job opportunities, while 41 per cent backed the telecoms industry.

Responding to the findings, the pollster's sales director Peter Healey forecast that the next 12 months will see the finance sector mount a serious economic recovery.

"Banking was the first to be hit during the recession, but it will also be the first to recover, and it will offer a lot of opportunity in terms of IT recruitment," he added.

This development comes after the Bank of England asserted that professionals in banking jobs should have noticed market conditions improving over the last six months.

Updated: 24 December 2009.
Categories: banking-and-financial-services, market-and-industry-news.