Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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UK offshored most IT jobs to India

In their attempt to cut costs amid the global downturn, two in every three UK-based firms have off-shored a portion of their IT functions in the last six months, with a large portion of it coming to India, a survey says.

According to a survey by an UK-based IT recruitment firm IT Job Board, 64 per cent of the companies surveyed have offshored a portion of their IT functions in the last six months.

About 34 per cent of the IT professionals said more than half of their IT department had already been shifted overseas and 79 per cent respondents said the work had been sent to India.

Exactly half of those surveyed believed their companies would offshore work and 75 per cent felt the work would go to India.

In terms of the roles being affected, 79 per cent thought software developer jobs were being outsourced, 71 per cent stated programmer roles, and 67 per cent advised IT support jobs were being impacted.

About 40 per cent believed the issue with offshoring was lack of business knowledge and 83 per cent felt it was having a negative impact on the quality of their IT.

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