{"id":519,"date":"2015-07-14T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=519"},"modified":"2015-07-14T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:58:51","slug":"uk-employment-trends-in-brief-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/07\/uk-employment-trends-in-brief-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Employment trends in Brief &#8211; July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blue-news.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blue-news-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"blue news\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blue-news-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blue-news-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/blue-news.jpg 1647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Slower rise in permanent placements&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June data signalled a further increase in permanent staff placements. Although remaining stronger than the survey\u2019s long-run average, the rate of expansion eased to the slowest in 25 months.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Candidate availability remains tight&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A key factor weighing on growth of staff appointments was shortages of qualified candidates. Although easing slightly since May, rates of decline in both permanent and temporary candidate availability remained considerable.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">&#8230;fuelling further pay increases<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rate of permanent salary inflation remained strong and well above the survey\u2019s historical trend in June, despite easing to a four-month low. Temp pay growth moderated to the slowest in 14 months, but again remained marked overall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slower rise in permanent placements&#8230; June data signalled a further increase in permanent staff placements. Although remaining stronger than the survey\u2019s long-run average, the rate of expansion eased to the slowest in 25 months. Candidate availability remains tight&#8230; A key factor weighing on growth of staff appointments was shortages of qualified candidates. Although easing slightly since May, rates of decline in both permanent and temporary candidate availability remained considerable. &#8230;fuelling further pay increases The rate of permanent salary inflation remained strong and well above the survey\u2019s historical trend in June, despite easing to a four-month low. Temp pay growth moderated&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"app","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}