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Discover the Latest Trends in the Technology Recruitment Sector
APSCo UK and CV-Library have partnered to produce a series of quarterly labour market reports, providing recruitment businesses with regular insight into hiring activity across key professional sectors. Drawing on CV-Library's analysis of Lightcast labour market data, alongside candidate and salary data from the CV-Library platform, each report explores the latest recruitment trends, market movements and demand for skills within a different sector of the UK economy.
What to expect?
This edition focuses on the technology sector, analysing Q2 2026 labour market data alongside historical trends and quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year comparisons. Covering hiring activity, regional demand, candidate behaviour, salary trends, AI-related recruitment and the UK's most in-demand technology roles, the report provides a comprehensive overview of how the technology recruitment market has evolved over the past year and where it is heading.
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Key Highlights
- AI Engineer postings grew 74.4% year-on-year in permanent hiring and 96.3% in temporary, with AI-related roles now accounting for 4.6% of all tech vacancies, up from 3.4% a year ago.
- Permanent roles continue to dominate at 88% of all tech vacancies, while employer-direct hiring grew 19.8% year-on-year as recruitment agency volumes fell.
- Ten of twelve UK regions recorded year-on-year growth, with Northern Ireland more than doubling its posting volume.
- Average advertised salaries held broadly flat year-on-year at £71,261, masking significant variation by role and region.
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The latest data paints a picture of a technology recruitment market that is stable, but evolving rapidly. While overall vacancy volumes have remained relatively consistent, the makeup of demand is changing, with AI, data and cybersecurity skills becoming increasingly critical to business growth and transformation.
Samantha Hurley, Managing Director, APSCo UK
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