IT Search’s Rebecca Lavery discusses the software ecosystem in Ireland and offers advice to professionals considering their next career move.
For Rebecca Lavery, a principal recruitment consultant at IT Search, which is a member of the Vertical Markets Group, Ireland’s software development market has experienced significant development since the global pandemic.
She explained, an initial boom in 2021 and 2022 resulted in a surge of software roles and movement across the sector, before decreasing significantly across the market in 2023.
She said, “Today, role volumes sit at roughly 40pc of pre-pandemic levels. What makes the current picture particularly striking is where the demand is concentrated. Hiring is happening predominantly at senior level and above.”
As a result, she finds that more junior roles, that is jobs typically undertaken by graduates, early-career starters, or less experienced professionals, as a means of beginning their career journeys, are less common in the current ecosystem.
