IT management roles decline

New figures have suggested that IT jobs are largely holding steady despite an economic downturn, says ITPro.

There are fewer jobs available for IT managers, but most roles in the sector are holding steady in the face of economic woes.

Figures from the IT Job Board have shown that most areas of the sector have remained static. IT support, analysts, and networking and developer positions have all seen stable demand over the past two quarters.

Following the UK Government's recent pledge to make its IT operations carbon neutral by 2013, cabinet office minister Tom Watson has released a delivery plan to encourage sustainable procurement and reduce carbon emission across Whitehall operations, says Energy Efficiency News.

As well as carbon-neutral IT, the Government has promised to cut carbon emissions from its department by 12.5% by 2010/11.

But it has come in for recent criticism for lagging behind in its efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce energy usage.

Financial services organisation Liverpool Victoria is introducing centralised IT management capabilities across it UK operations after taking responsibility for IT back in-house, says IT Pro.

Mitch Lambton, IT director at LV Group, said taking back ownership of the service enabled it to become more agile in supporting the business' growth plans and ensure IT as a high quality service to the business.

The function also wanted to increase efficiency and drive down cost by installing standardised, repeatable IT processes across the business and introduce better reporting and governance practices using the industry standard IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework.