Demand for temporary workers has risen once again, as fewer people are being recruited to permanent positions. Research compiled by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG, across 400 recruitment agencies, found a drop in permanent job vacancies.

Pay pressures remained subdued in November, with both permanent salaries and temporary/contract staff hourly rates increasing only marginally.

It was also reported that there was a buck in the trend regarding the decline in the numbers of permanent vacancies and that there has been a rise in the level of permanent placements for engineering and construction staff compared to this time last year. Demand also rose for IT and computing staff, and for executive/professional and secretarial/clerical categories.

At Plus One Personnel we have not seen a drop in the number of permanent vacancies, in fact we have seen a 167% increase in the number of permanent vacancies registered in November this year compared to November 2010.