job market report 2015 belgium

The IT Job Board, March 2015

IT Job MarketReport 2015

We surveyed our tech community to create a comprehensive IT Job Market Report containing salary insights, market expectations on future remuneration, mobility, social media and more.We hope you will find this report useful.

IT Job Board

Introduction

1

Contractor Demographics

1. IT Contractors

IT Job Board Tel +31 (0)20 799 4100 Web www.itjobboard.be

Gender Sector

Male Female Private Public

95% 5% 76% 24%

Where contractors currently work

Antwerp

Limburg

Luxembourg

Liege

Flemish Brabant

West Flanders

Hainaut

HainautWalloon Brabant

Namur

East Flanders

Brussels

Density of IT Employees

Highest Lowest

2

Education level

Years of IT experience

0% 10%5% 15% 40%20% 30%25% 35%

32%0 - 5 years

13%6 - 10 years

21%

21%16 - 20 years

11 - 15 years

13%More than 20 years

Contractor’s age

0% 10%5% 15% 40%20% 30%25% 35%

5%18 - 24 years old

0%< 18 years old

37%25 - 34 years old

34%

5%55 - 64 years old


35 - 44 years old

0%> 65 years old

0% 10%5% 15% 50%40% 45%20% 30%25% 35%

10%High School

3%Less than High School

5%College Degree

50%

0%Ph.D.

29%Master Degree

Bachelor Degree

3%Other*

Other* IT Certificates


3

Current area of IT

0% 10%5% 15% 40%35%30%20% 25%

32%Development

21%Project Management

18%Support & Operations

5%Testing

11%Analysis

13%Other*

Current career level

0% 10%5% 15% 50%45%35%20% 30%25% 40%

21%Senior Management

3%Director

10%Middle Management

45%Team Member

8%Lower Management

13%Entry Level

Commuting time to work

18%

18%

14%18%

18%

14%

15 - 30 minutes

<15 minutes

30 - 45 minutes

60 - 75 minutes

45 - 60 minutes

>75 minutes

Other* Consultancy, Business Development and Security


4

¤1 - ¤30

19% 21%

¤91 - ¤120

0%¤120 +¤61 - ¤90

30%

¤31 - ¤60

30%

Contractor Salary

Contract Rates (hourly)

Change in salary (last review)

Expectations (next review)

0% 10%5% 15% 40%20% 30%25% 35%

33%Increase

35%No change

5%

11%No comment

Decrease

16%Don’t know

Increase 3%

Decrease29%

No change 68%


All contract rates are exclusive of recruitment agency fees, commissions, employee benefitsand performance related bonuses

5

Future Plans

When IT Contractors expect to change job

Most important factors when choosing a new contract

Within 6 months22%

Within 12 months16%

More than 12 months11%

6 12 12+

Immediately16%

Within 1 month5%

Within 3 months30%

! 1 3

Salary13%

Career opportunities24%

Challenging tasks38%

High responsibility8%

Location11%

Other6%


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6

Permanent Employee Demographics

2. Permanent


Gender Sector

Male Female Private Public

83% 17% 89% 11%

Where do employees currently work?

Antwerp

Limburg

Luxembourg

Liege

Flemish Brabant

West Flanders

Hainaut

HainautWalloon Brabant

Namur

East Flanders

Brussels

Density of IT Employees

Highest Lowest

7IT Job Board Tel +31 (0)20 799 4100 Web www.itjobboard.be

Education level

Years of IT experience

0% 10%5% 15% 40%20% 30%25% 35%

32%0 - 5 years

31%6 - 10 years

11%

15%16 - 20 years

11 - 15 years

11%More than 20 years

Employee’s age

0% 10% 60%20% 40%30% 50%

2%18 - 24 years old

0%< 18 years old


26%

7%55 - 64 years old


35 - 44 years old

0%> 65 years old

0% 10%5% 15% 50%40% 45%20% 30%25% 35%

12%High School

3%Less than High School

8%College Degree

37%

1%Ph.D.

39%Master Degree

Bachelor Degree

8

Current area of IT

Current career level

0% 10% 60%50%20% 30% 40%

6%Senior Management

1%Director

20%Middle Management16%

54%Team Member

Lower Management

3%Entry Level

Commuting time to work

Other* Design, UX, Architecture, Business Development

15%

23%

21%

17%

9%

15%

15 - 30 minutes

<15 minutes

30 - 45 minutes

60 - 75 minutes

45 - 60 minutes

>75 minutes

0% 10%5% 15% 35%20% 30%25%

31%Development

21%Project Management

31%Support & Operations5%

3%Testing

Analysis

9%Other*


9

Permanent Employee Salary

Current monthly salary (gross income)

Change in salary (last review)

48%

¤2251 - ¤3750

Expectations (next review)

0% 10% 60%50%20% 30% 40%

43%Increase

32%No change

1%

8%No comment

Decrease

16%Don’t know

Increase31%

Decrease 0%

No change 69%


¤851 - ¤2250

13%0%¤9750 +

¤3751 - ¤6750

38%

¤6751 - ¤9750

1%

10

Permanent Employee Current Benefits

Listed in order of popularity

14

Duvet Days

13Other benefits mentionedincluded internet at home,

meal vouchers and life insurance

41 2

PrivateHealthcare

3

Laptop

5

MobilePhone

7 86

9 10

CompanyCar

11 12

Gymmembership


Pension

Flexibleworking hours

ExtraHoliday

Freelunch

Cycle to WorkScheme

Seasonticket loan

Child carevouchers

SabbaticalLeave

11

Future Plans

Within 3 years3%

Within 6 month26%

Within 1 year21%

When do permanent employees expect to change jobs?

Most important factors when choosing a new job

Immediately14%

! 6M

Within 2 years16%

2Y 3Y

More than 3 years20%

3Y+

1Y

Salary19%

Career opportunities19%

High responsibility6%

Other important factors were a good

balance between work and private life


Challenging tasks46%

Location9%

12

Most import reason to stay in an existing job

17%

27%38%

18%

Other reasons to stay in a job included: trust in strategy and management, team spirit, investment in the welfare of employees and overall environment

Other18%

Investment inIT department

17%

Strong overallbusiness

performance27%

Clearcareer path

38%


13

*The most searched for skills on the www.theitjobobard.co.uk


Most popular IT skills of 2014

3. Skills in demand

Top 15 most searched for skillsby tech professionals

BusinessIntelli-gence

Linux

NetworkEngineer

Oracle

ITSupport

SoftwareDeveloper

SAP

CBusinessAnalyst

ITManager

.Net

ProjectManagerJava

1 23

45

67

8

910

11

12

1314

15PHP

The most searched for skills on www.itjobboard.be

Testing


Top 15 most searched for skillsby employers

Java1

SAP2

PHP3

C#5

Salesforce

7

Linux6

C9

Developer

10

Python12

Oracle15

Security

14

UX13

Tester11

.Net4

BusinessIntelligence

8

The most searched for skills by employers in our CV database


4. Social Recruitment

How do tech professionals interact on social media?

Tech pros are waiting for you...

82%interact with other tech professionals on social sites

80%search for new job opportunities on social sites

75%regularly update their profiles to appeal to employers

90%receptive to employers contacting them via

social sites

21%said that employers never contact them

via socialsites

but


How can recruiters improve contact with tech prosthrough social media

Other4%

Research my employmentBackground more

32%

Only target me withrelevant jobs

47%Show technicalunderstanding

of my job17%

Currentrelevance

as opposed topast relevance:our careers

evolve quickly

Askquestions

before startingto speak

Offeropportunities

to suit my experienceand salary

Behonest

Where to find tech pros (social media platforms)

Google+ 20%

Google Groups 6%

Facebook 34%

Meetup 2%

Github 7%

Stack Overflow 11%

Twitter 20%

Excluding LinkedIn

The IT Job Board® is a Dice Holdings Inc. service. It is a leading tech career site for Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and the UK, as well as a media service that targets IT decision makers and professionals globally.

IT Job Board.be helps connect employers with relevant active and passive tech professionals.

The site currently advertises over 1.000 live vacancies from companies such as ING, PwC, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard and many more*.

In 2014 IT Job Board launched Open Web, a new sourcing tool that tracks publicly available social data from 130 leading social and professional sites, providing recruiters with a social search engine containing rich tech profiles.

*As of February 2015

About the IT Job Board

Email: [email protected]: +31 (0)20 799 4100Website: www.itjobboard.beOpen web: www.theitjobboard.co.uk/openwebTwitter: @itjobboard_be

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The IT Job Board, March 2015

IT Job MarketReport 2015

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