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Businesses slow to embrace remote working are struggling to attract the best tech talent

Businesses in the UK could face a struggle to hire tech talent over the next 12 months, as new research reveals companies are slow to embrace remote working.

According to research by developer recruitment platform CodinGame, less than a quarter of developer jobs currently being advertised in the UK are remote positions.

Of the 13,000 tech jobs being advertised across more than 100 major UK towns and cities, less than a quarter are listed as remote positions, according to the research. When including the tech roles that are currently listed as “temporarily remote”, the amount rise to just over a third.

With exceptionally high demand for skilled developers, particularly DevOps specialists and cloud computing experts, companies face a huge challenge trying to hire office-based developers.

Of the towns and cities where there are currently more than 50 available job posts for developers, Birmingham has the highest percentage of companies advertising remote positions, with almost four-in-ten developer positions being listed as remote.

Bath, Southampton and Manchester have the next highest percentage of remote tech roles being advertised. While, in London just over a fifth of developer jobs looking to be filled are remote.

At the other end of the table, only 11% of the 57 and 99 developer roles being advertised by companies based in Warrington and Cheltenham respectively are listed as remote.

The following table shows the major UK towns and cities with the highest percentage of developer jobs currently being advertised that are remote positions, though only cities with 50 or more developer jobs currently being advertised are included in the table

Location Number of developer positions Number of remote positions % of remote positions 
Birmingham 330 126 38.2
Bath 55 19 34.5
Southampton 95 30 31.6
Manchester 855 268 31.3
York 94 28 29.8
Sheffield 145 43 29.7
Cardiff 149 43 28.9
Nottingham 193 55 28.5
Reading 232 64 27.6
Dundee 71 19 26.8

 

Aude Barral, co-founder and CCO of developer recruitment platform CodinGame, comments: 

“It’s concerning just how few developer positions are remote roles, with more than three quarters of the 13,000 jobs we analysed being advertised as office-based. 

“Even though the country is slowly coming out of lockdown, we would still have expected the number of companies offering remote programming roles to be higher. 

“For example, when we polled HR professionals recently for our latest annual survey, almost half said they would offer developers the opportunity to work remotely full-time. We also polled developers, and 70% said they would like to work remotely if given the opportunity.

“With companies investing heavily in digital and cloud infrastructures, a developer role can be carried out effortlessly away from the office.

“The challenge businesses are going to face over the next 12 months and beyond, is finding the tech talent to fill local positions if they won’t consider remote working as an option. 

“Businesses need to be looking to hire now, because with more and more companies moving their operations online as a consequence of the pandemic, there is huge demand for talented developers, and that demand is only likely to increase.

“But by limiting their searches to developers who can travel into the office, companies may find they’ll struggle to fill highly specialised tech positions. 

“Opening up their searches to include developers who aren’t local and are able to work remotely, could enable companies to tap into a much larger tech talent pool, not just in the UK but globally.”

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