Most job-seeking techies 'finding work in months'

Half of job-seeking IT pros are finding work within three months despite the economic downturn, a new survey has found.

However the survey of 350 job seekers, commissioned by IT recruitment company First Point, also revealed a substantial proportion (16 per cent) of tech workers had to wait a year or more before landing a new role.

Understandably, there is widespread reluctance to move jobs - with 40 per cent of respondents saying they are 'very likely' to stay in their current role for a longer period of time because of the recession.

Meanwhile the latest employment index for May from jobs website Monster shows the number of IT jobs advertised online rose around one per cent on the month before. However, the number of vacancies is still down around 36 per cent on May 2008.