Silicon Milkroundabout Job Fair Returns To London

Silicon Milkroundabout, an annual job fair for IT graduates, is coming to the Truman Brewery in East London this weekend.

The event will offer over 800 jobs, hoping to attract young talent and plug the much-lamented skills gap in IT.

Bridging the gap

Silicon Milkroundabout will see over 100 of the UK’s top start-ups including Twitter, Songkick, Moo, Wonga, Last.fm, Seatwave, Shazam, Mozilla and Moshi Monsters offering more than 800 jobs to the Tech and Engineering graduates. Positions on offer start at £21k and range all the way up to £60k.

The job fair is spread over two days, with Saturday dedicated to product management and design, and Sunday reserved for engineering. There are 1,500 free tickets for each day of the event. You can register to participate here, but be quick, as tickets for the previous events were in such demand that the organisers had to turn away people at the door.

“It’s amazing to see the start-up scene in the UK really starting to boom and it’s even better to see the brightest minds in the UK picking jobs in start-ups over banks. Events like the Silicon Milkroundabout are fuelling this new, entrepreneurial wave in Britain,” commented Andrew Hunter, co-founder of UK job search engine Adzuna.co.uk and one of the organisers of the event.

According to research by Adzuna, over 7,000 computer scientists will graduate this summer from universities in the UK, meaning just under two applicants for every graduate tech vacancy. The average number of applicants to graduate positions in the UK is 50, which makes a career in Tech sound really attractive.

In addition, 25 percent of start ups currently hiring in London are offering stock to graduate tech employees as part of their salary package. Guess how many banks hiring graduates are offering stock? Zero.

Mobile developers are currently among the most sought after employees, with the number of job vacancies up 65 percent year on year for Android developers, and up over 100 percent for iPhone and iPad developers. However, those working with Android are getting paid £1k more on average than the iOS crowd.

Azuna has also discovered 596 UK employers looking for “Gurus”, over 70 “Ninjas” in hot demand and even one tech employer looking for a “Coding Jedi”.

Did we forget to mention the event will have a free bar, free coffee, free fruit and free business cards on offer?

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