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• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  Collaboration key to success of UK’s Cyber Security Council

  The founders of the UK’s Cyber Security Council have been setting out their plans to professionalise the cyber sector at the NCSC’s CyberUK 2021 event

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Cyber accreditation to improve legal standing of security pros

  Institute of Cyber Digital Investigations Professionals will help incident responders and cyber investigators get the professional recognition they deserve

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Dysfunctional cyber, network teams disrupt digital transformation

  Despite shared goals, combative and dysfunctional relationships within specialist tech teams are putting digital transformation projects at risk, according to a report

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Interview: ONS data science chief Tom Smith on government data capability

  The managing director of the Office of National Statistics’ Data Science Campus, Tom Smith, describes the organisation’s data capability building activities for and across government

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Delivering international talent to Helsinki’s tech ecosystem

  Finland’s capital is the envy of the world as a tech hub, but it still faces challenges in attracting skills in a highly competitive global market

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Infosys to create 1,000 tech jobs in UK

  Infosys joins TCS in announcing the creation of UK IT jobs as India and the UK negotiate a future trading relationship

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Northern Ireland pilots security training plan for 16-25s

  Pilot scheme in Northern Ireland aims to widen access to cyber security careers

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  UK demand for digital automation skills soars

  The need for automation proficiency has more than doubled in the past two years, according to research

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Recruiters can’t afford to hold out for cyber ‘unicorns’

  The perfect security candidate is hard to find, so hiring policy needs to be more pragmatic

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  North London school wins NCSC girls’ cyber challenge

  Highgate School in North London is the winner of this year’s CyberFirst Girls security competition

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  GCHQ: Cyber investment a guarantor of UK’s global status

  GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming sets out a vision for the UK’s cyber security future

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  SAP users identify data skills shortage as importance of analytics spikes

  Research from the SAP UK & Ireland User Group has demonstrated a data skills dearth among users and a delay in using the SAP Hana in-memory database until full S/4 Hana ERP implementations

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  London tech manifesto calls on next mayor to support tech industry

  The London tech manifesto, put together by several tech organisations, calls on the city’s next mayor to support tech companies, increase digital skills investment and tackle the lack of diversity in the sector

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  CDO summer school plots step change for data leaders

  The summer school for chief data officers, run by Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, promises data leaders a curriculum to match the elevated salience of the CDO role

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  IR35 reforms: MPs call on government to clean up UK’s ‘wild west’ contracting labour supply chain

  A 200-strong group of MPs is calling for urgent action from the government to protect contractors from the dubious practices of non-compliant umbrella companies and badly behaved employment agencies just days after private sector IR35 reforms came ...

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Cyber Security Council to champion UK security pros

  A new cyber security professional body has launched with the aim of developing and promoting UK cyber security excellence globally and growing the skills base

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences combines AI and practice

  University ensures cooperation between scientists and industry when developing artificial intelligence

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  UK faces significant cyber talent shortfall

  Cyber security sector is struggling to attract the talented workforce it needs

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Generation Z majority left cold by data literacy

  Data literacy is a term with little currency among 16 to 21-year-olds, according to research commissioned by analytics database company Exasol, but more than half of those surveyed think data skills should be more prominent in education

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Young people don’t feel they have advanced digital skills for work

  Young people know how important digital skills are, but don’t think they have the necessary level of skill for the workplace, according to the Learning and Work Institute

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  CIO interview: Juliette Atkinson, IT director, Bradford University

  Bradford University’s IT director took a different route than most to get into IT leadership

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Insurers unable to fill a quarter of tech roles

  Insurance companies need to fill tech skills gaps if they are going to prosper in the age of insurtech

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Banks still lack tech skills at the top

  Banks have made progress in adding IT knowledge in their boardrooms, but they need more as digital transformation accelerates

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: IT contractors ‘growing reluctant’ to work for ‘blanket banning’ firms

  IT-focused staffing company Ellis Recruitment Group shares its take on how the contracting market is responding to the private sector firms enforcing blanket bans

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  UK launches fellowship to attract tech talent to government

  Programme jointly run by Number 10 and Government Digital Service will see 10 leaders enlisted to address key challenges in the public sector

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  SAS launches free data skills programme for job seekers

  Pro bono data skills programme, in tandem with job placement agencies, has the aim of training 10,000 people

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  Australia’s job market to shrink 11% with automation

  Those who perform highly structured administrative jobs in finance, accounting and procurement are most at risk as automation continues to reshape Australia’s workforce

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Significant jump in number of hackers reporting vulnerabilities to companies

  Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of hackers reporting security vulnerabilities and bugs to enterprises has increased by nearly two-thirds

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  DevOps pros get salary boost in spite of Covid squeeze

  Although many businesses have tightened spending, digitisation is driving up salaries among DevOps professionals

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Nordic innovators change emphasis on gender equality in society

  Female technology innovators in the Nordics take a different approach to trying to improve opportunities for women

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Progress towards gender equality in cyber still slow

  The cyber security sector is making painfully slow progress towards gender equality, according to a report

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  More than 20% of tech employees hesitant to speak about diversity

  Despite a large majority of people agreeing that diversity and inclusion initiatives are important, some people are still hesitant to speak about it as a topic, according to TTC research

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  DCMS gives tablet devices to people with learning disabilities

  The government is providing thousands of free tablet devices to those with learning disabilities to help them stay connected

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Huawei opens developer lab in Singapore

  Huawei’s Digix lab will provide software development resources to those who are building mobile apps for Huawei’s mobile platform

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Nearly 80,000 more tech roles filled at end of 2020 compared with end of 2019, says ONS

  Thousands of jobs were created in the UK’s tech sector in 2020, according to ONS figures, with data from elsewhere also showing that the sector is poised for recovery

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  Tech worker-centric umbrella company launches to target IT contractors 'displaced' by IR35

  As the number of private sector firms enforcing blanket bans on contractors grows, Techcentre Umbrella is offering IT workers ‘displaced’ by the reforms a safe haven, claims its founder

• February 22, 2021 22 Feb'21

  UK government set to offer fintech visa

  The importance of immigrant workers to the UK's fintech sector highlighted by government planned fintech visa

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Interview: From healthcare to healthcare IT provider

  One route into IT is to take your knowledge of a certain sector to an IT firm that specialises in it. This is Katy Cain’s story

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  2020 a record year for cyber, thanks to Covid

  The UK’s cyber industry now employs close to 50,000 people and contributes billions to the economy

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Security pros agree: We need to take a break

  As many as 85% of security staff engage in leisure activities during working hours, but they have excellent reasons for doing so

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Emotional intelligence, empathy increasingly valued in CISOs

  The pandemic has highlighted the value of soft skills, rather than technical ones, in security

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  How software developers can make more dough

  There are subtle differences across Europe in developer salaries, depending on experience and demand for front-end, full-stack or front-end roles

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  Almost half of firms looking to recruit tech workers

  Many professionals claim their firms are actively seeking workers for tech-based roles, finds CWJobs and techUK

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  NCSC recognises UK’s top cyber schools

  National Cyber Security Centre CyberFirst Schools initiative has handed out 14 gold, silver and bronze awards recognising excellence in cyber security teaching

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  ENIAC anniversary: What 75 years of computer technology have delivered

  The ENIAC was a computer built for the US Army to calculate missile trajectories during the Second World War, but it was finally delivered in February 1946

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Future security stars shine in first round of CyberFirst Girls contest

  There were more than 6,500 participants in the opening heats of the National Cyber Security Centre’s CyberFirst Girls competition this year

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Nationwide Building Society kicks off search for tech apprentices

  Nationwide is working with local organisations to boost tech skills

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  TCS to recruit 1,500 UK tech professionals this year

  Indian IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services commits to recruiting UK IT professionals

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Century-old insurer uses low code as digital demands increase

  Lloyds of London insurance and reinsurance broker Miller breaks from the past by adopting low-code software development platform

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Russia’s Sber launches international AI contest for children

  Children from across the world invited to take part in artificial intelligence competition launched by Russian bank-turned-tech business