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Technical Moves - Salary Guide 2007/2008 now available
We are pleased to announce that our new Salary Guide for 2007/2008 is now available.
We have produced this guide by gathering salary and job information from our client’s and candidate’s within East Anglia, Essex, Beds, Bucks, Herts, London and the South East over the last twelve months. This guide also draws on our fourteen years combined local experience in Civil & Structural Engineering, Architecture, Property and Surveying, Construction and Commercial recruitment.
We have made every effort to produce a guide that gives an honest reflection of our recruitment experience and the industry average salaries that we have encountered for these areas. We have included the most popular requests that we receive for salary information from clients and hope that this reflects some of the most typical positions that you recruit for. We trust that you find our first salary survey useful and hope that you are able to use it as a quick guide or reference point throughout the year or .
If you would like any specific information on individual positions or salaries relevant to your company’s location and current vacancies then we would be more than happy to discuss your own requirements.
This is the edition of our Salary Guide which we have expanded this year to include a brief Market Overview and also include Construction and Commercial positions. Please feel free to download a PDF version of our salary guide or contact us and we will gladly post you a hard copy and add you to our annual mailing list.
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14 Upgrade - Winning Bidder Confirmed
A Costain/Skanska joint venture has been confirmed as the winning bidder for deal to upgrade the A14 in Cambridgeshire for the Highways Agency. The JV saw off rival bids from Laing O'Rourke, Balfour Beatty/Alfred McAlpine and Carillion/Nuttall for the early contractor involvement deal to upgrade the A14 between Ellington and Fen Ditton. The deal was valued at up to £678 million when it was advertised in February last year.
The Costain/Skanska team will be responsible for designing the whole project but will only carry out the widening work between Fen Drayton and Histon. The other elements of the scheme will be subject to separate tendering exercise upon completion of statutory processes. Construction is expected to start on site in late 2010 and to be completed in stages between 2012 and 2015.
Construction Sector Strong, say latest surveys
The construction industry enjoyed record results in 2007 and is expecting strong performance in 2008 despite economic uncertainty, according to two newly released trend surveys. The Civil Engineering Contractors Association said that nearly two thirds of respondents to its trends survey reported a rise in workload over the past year and that order books were the strongest to have been recorded in the 11 year history of the CECA survey. Railway infrastructure, water and sewerage works performed particularly strongly. "The signs of a revival in work on motorways and trunk roads are especially welcome after a five year slump, and we hope they will be confirmed in our next survey in April," said CECA chairman Peter Andrew.
The rosy picture is corroborated by the newly released Construction Confederation and Construction Products Association Trade Survey Report that reported further rises in output reported in the last quarter of 2007. Though the survey reported weaker growth in the last quarter of 2007 suggesting that tougher credit conditions are kicking in it still predicted a "buoyant" 2008 particularly in public sector health, education and infrastructure.
Workload Overview May 2008
According to EMAP Glenigan’s Workload Overview for May 2008 the recent credit crunch and problems on the world’s stock exchanges may have undermined many commercial property funds but building work is still entering the system at pace. EMAP Glenigan recorded £6.5 billion-worth of work at early planning. At plans approved, just short of £2 billion-worth of work was given the green light by the UK’s planning authorities – the highest total for two years. For more information on current market trends, the value of schemes currently up for tender and main contract awards within the commercial and residential sectors within East Anglia click on this link to be directed to EMAP Glenigan’s website.
Technical Moves - Salary Guide 2007/2008 now available
We are pleased to announce that our new Salary Guide for 2007/2008 is now available.
We have produced this guide by gathering salary and job information from our client’s and candidate’s within East Anglia, Essex, Beds, Bucks, Herts, London and the South East over the last twelve months. This guide also draws on our fourteen years combined local experience in Civil & Structural Engineering, Architecture, Property and Surveying, Construction and Commercial recruitment.
We have made every effort to produce a guide that gives an honest reflection of our recruitment experience and the industry average salaries that we have encountered for these areas. We have included the most popular requests that we receive for salary information from clients and hope that this reflects some of the most typical positions that you recruit for. We trust that you find our first salary survey useful and hope that you are able to use it as a quick guide or reference point throughout the year or .
If you would like any specific information on individual positions or salaries relevant to your company’s location and current vacancies then we would be more than happy to discuss your own requirements.
This is the edition of our Salary Guide which we have expanded this year to include a brief Market Overview and also include Construction and Commercial positions. Please feel free to download a PDF version of our salary guide or contact us and we will gladly post you a hard copy and add you to our annual mailing list.
Architecture finally sees significant rises in salaries
In 2007 architecture finally saw significant rises in salaries across the board. This was the year architects came in from the cold, according to the RIBA’s annual earnings survey. For the first time in five years, architects’ pay has finally risen above inflation.
Some regions even saw huge wage hikes. In 2005, when the last comparable figures were collected, inflation overtook pay increases — having a real effect on the contents of the average architect’s wallet. But in 2007, average earnings did an about-turn and shot ahead of the consumer price index. In the intervening two years, wages have soared by nearly 10%, and today the full-time architect earns on average the princely sum of £40,000 per year.
REC responds to new Government jobs pledge
Tom Hadley, the REC’s Director of External Relations commented: “The new jobs pledge can only work if the Government leverages the skills and local knowledge of recruitment agencies to meet the needs of the local labour market and boost employment numbers by 2010.
"Both the REC and JobCentre Plus recognise the value in placing candidates in temporary assignments at a local level as a route into permanent work and a way of boosting employment at a grass roots level. Equally though, the Government must take a more flexible approach to benefits so claimants don’t feel that their ‘safety net’ is removed the minute they take on short term work".
East of England gets £700m for social housing
The East of England will receive £700 million from the Government to help fund a new supply of affordable housing. The allocation is part of a £10.4 billion fund made available through the Regional Housing Pot over the next three years. Housing minister Yvette Cooper said: "As a government we want to widen access to home ownership and help more people build up assets.
"But home ownership won't be sustainable for everyone. And for some it is a real struggle to find an affordable stable home in the private sector. "Social housing needs to deliver the security and stability as well as the affordability that families need. But affordability and security are not enough. Social housing needs to support opportunity too." £2 billion of the fund will be spent on improving existing stock.
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