Sign On Incentives Up To £3k For Gas Engineers As UK Job Market Booms
Posted: Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
A new study from Indeed has found there has been a 75% increase of employers offering generous signing-on packages in an attempt to attract skilled workers, as job vacancies in the UK soared past one million for the first time in history. And if you’re a qualified gas engineer…you’re hot property. Not only did the report find that construction wages are growing faster than any other sector - increasing 8.2% between February and August this year - it also found that gas engineers and drivers represented the jobs that have seen the most substantial increase in the use of signing bonuses and incentives - with some employers offering up to £3,000 for simply taking the gig in the industry. As reported by The Mirror, these incentives are being offered on top of rapidly rising wages, showing that high demand for workers in the construction, transport, manufacturing and food industries is leading wage growth in those sectors to far outstrip that in the rest of the UK economy. Hundreds of employers now offering up to £5,000 upfront in desperate plea for new staff https://t.co/S5oc2zxMU1 pic.twitter.com/IlXgJ7u3dx Jack Kennedy, UK Economist at global job site Indeed, said: “Worker shortages have become so endemic in some sectors that employers are having to work increasingly hard - and think imaginatively - to attract the staff they need.” “Sectors with the biggest squeezes for workers have responded with well-above average pay increases but while some people’s heads have been turned, the supply of workers still isn’t keeping up with demand for workers.” (H/T Mirror)
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