{"id":230910,"date":"2026-01-13T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230910\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:50:12","slug":"demand-for-ai-tech-experts-pushes-uk-financial-sector-vacancies-up-12-recruiter-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230910\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for AI, tech experts pushes UK financial sector vacancies up 12%, recruiter says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Demand for workers in AI, regulation, data reporting and other \u200bspecialist skills drove vacancies in Britain&#8217;s \u200cfinancial sector up 12% in 2025, recruiting firm Morgan McKinley \u200csaid on Monday, as companies sought to keep up in a technology arms race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The year-on-year increase happened despite a slowdown in the fourth \u2060quarter, as volatility \u200cin global markets and uncertainty about the government&#8217;s November budget prompted caution \u200din hiring managers, Morgan McKinley&#8217;s London Employment Monitor, a quarterly survey of financial services vacancies, showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Software and \u200bcomputer services now account for over 16% \u200cof vacancies, above traditional roles such as investment management and banking which accounted for 15% of total vacancies each last year, Mark Astbury, director at Morgan McKinley, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Clerical and administrative positions fell \u206016%, and broking roles \u200bfell 20% over the year, \u200bas AI and automation of services reduced the demand for staff in these \u200dfunctions, the \u2060data showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The robust hiring should continue into the first quarter of this year, Astbury \u2060said, as unemployment remained relatively low at 5% and \u200cinflation stable at 3.2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Lawrence White, \u200cEditing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Demand for workers in AI, regulation, data reporting and other \u200bspecialist skills drove&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,137386,137385,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-230910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-financial-sector","tag-morgan-mckinley","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}