Training more of an incentive to IT professionals than a pay rise

18:15 15th December 2008

IT professionals are more motivated by training opportunities at work than the promise of a pay rise, reveals an industry insider.

With innovations in IT moving at such a rapid pace, IT professionals require constant training for to ensure their skills are current and they remain competitive in the workplace.

Alex Farrell, managing director of The IT Job Board, commented: "IT staff almost see training as more important to them than a raise in salary and companies understand that keeping their IT staff highly skilled, which involves continual training, is more important than pay increases."

She added that the IT industry was now a vital part of the business sector and almost every single company has a representative from the IT sector on the board of directors.

According to recent research from The IT Job Board, 81 per cent of IT professionals said they would relocate abroad and 28 per cent of those cited the promise of career development as the reason they would be enticed overseas.