The gender agenda
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Women offer accepted: 30%
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Men offer accepted: 70%
Analysing Matchtech's gender placement data for Q1 and Q2 of 2023 reveals a consistent lack of change. Women's underrepresentation in the tech sector persists, underscoring the ongoing priority for organisations to address and rectify this imbalance.
More positively, the gender pay gap lessened over Q2. Anecdotally, we have had several senior placements bucking a trend of Q4 and Q1 and with further evidence of average salaries increasing for women in technology alongside an increase in the number of women being placed.
Enterprise level businesses particularly continue to be attractive, especially to women as they offer better benefit packages, structured opportunities for personal development and career advancement as well as flexibility which promotes a favourable work-life balance.
Software development attracts the most females closely followed by management and design opportunities. Nevertheless, the realm of Cyber Security remains a persistent challenge. Despite a growing demand for expertise in this area, we are still grappling with a shortage of qualified talent to bridge the gap effectively.
How do our women in tech placements trend
47% of the females we have placed in 2023 have been in Software Development followed by 12% in management positions.
Women are in particular demand for DevOps and Security roles; however, they remain the most challenging to find.
LinkedIn research indicates a significant gender disparity in job applications: women apply when they meet 100% of requirements, while men apply with just 60%.
Over complicated job specifications or adverts that aren’t worded in a gender-neutral language are known to deter women from applying, we urge our clients to consider running roles through a bias checker to increase their pool of diverse applicants.
Average salary increase vs Q1
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Software Development 47%
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Management 12%
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Design 11%
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Architecture 9%
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Data 8%
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Cloud 7%
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Dev Ops 6%
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Security 6%
Taking a lead to encourage greater diversity in tech
We have been actively working with our clients on diversity running two ED&I events in both London and Southampton in H1 of 2023. Focused on lived experiences it has driven the focus on improving ED&I and bringing businesses together to discuss hot topics.
Data from “We Are Women In Tech” tech shows that only 35% of businesses are measuring non-binary diversity and only 25% of tech workers belong to ethnic minority groups that figure halves at senior positions.
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35% of businesses are measuring non-binary diversity
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Women offer accepted: 30%
£.6bn
Could be added to the UK economy annually if the tech sector found gender parity
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Over 53% of the top technology talent in the market
A recent study by NatWest found that if the tech sector found gender parity an additional £2.6 Billion could be added to the UK economy annually.
Mid-sized tech companies are at the forefront of promoting workplace diversity, boasting over 53% of the top technology talent in the market.
Matchtech are holding our first H2 ED&I event at the end of the summer hosted by ourselves, guest speakers and some top FTSE100 organisations. More information can be found here
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Women offer accepted: 30%
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Men offer accepted: 70%
Analysing Matchtech's gender placement data for Q1 and Q2 of 2023 reveals a consistent lack of change. Women's underrepresentation in the tech sector persists, underscoring the ongoing priority for organisations to address and rectify this imbalance.
More positively, the gender pay gap lessened over Q2. Anecdotally, we have had several senior placements bucking a trend of Q4 and Q1 and with further evidence of average salaries increasing for women in technology alongside an increase in the number of women being placed.
We have been actively working with our clients on diversity running two ED&I events in both London and Southampton in H1 of 2023. Focused on lived experiences it has driven the focus on improving ED&I and bringing businesses together to discuss hot topics.
Data from “We Are Women In Tech” tech shows that only 35% of businesses are measuring non-binary diversity and only 25% of tech workers belong to ethnic minority groups that figure halves at senior positions.
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35% of businesses are measuring non-binary diversity
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Women offer accepted: 30%
£.6bn
Could be added to the UK economy annually if the tech sector found gender parity
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Over 53% of the top technology talent in the market