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Message from the CEO
Welcome to the 2023 Barclay Simpson
Salary & Recruitment Trends Guide.
We noted in our 2022 report that a combination
of extraordinary factors had produced an
unprecedented post-pandemic bounce in
our recruitment markets. Crudely generalised
across the board and at all levels, the recovery
was characterised by an abundance of jobs,
candidate shortages and rapidly increasing
salaries.
These trends have continued throughout 2022,
providing unique opportunities to those who
ventured into the recruitment market. While the
pace of vacancy growth started to ease from
about the mid-year point, as I write in December
2022, the number of vacancies is still increasing,
albeit at a much-reduced rate.
Looking ahead to 2023, it is difficult to predict
what the recruitment market will offer. All logic
suggests that the environment next year will be
challenging, given the degree of economic and
social turbulence – including a widely forecast
recession – the ongoing war in Europe and
other global headwinds.
However, while there are clouds on the horizon,
we do not feel it is set in stone that the markets
in which we operate will contract in 2023. Chronic
skill shortages are still providing candidates
with multiple opportunities, and although salary
inflation may be easing, it was unrealistic to
expect it to have continued indefinitely at the
rates recently witnessed.
Barclay Simpson specialises in the recruitment
of cyber security, data, risk, internal audit,
compliance, legal, treasury and governance
professionals. This guide provides a review
of the major employment trends across the
markets in which our community members
work, and up-to-date information on current
salaries across these disciplines.
I would like to thank everyone who took the
time to contribute to our surveys. Your support
is invaluable in our endeavours to provide
useful career and recruitment insights to our
community members.
We also asked those who completed our survey
to name their preferred charity and pledged to
donate £500 to a randomly selected organisation
from those named. I’m delighted to say that
I have sent a cheque to the NSPCC.
Dean Spencer
CEO
