# IT Jobs Watch

> IT Jobs Watch is a UK-based publisher of digital and IT job market insights and one of the largest live aggregators of digital and IT job vacancies in the United Kingdom, operating continuously since 2004.

IT Jobs Watch Ltd (registered in England and Wales, Company Number 02977221) operates two complementary services on a single platform:

- **Daily-updated job market insights** — demand-side analysis of the UK digital and IT employment landscape, including vacancy trend statistics, salary benchmarking, contractor day- and hourly-rate benchmarking, skills frequency analysis, and historical comparisons covering the period 2004 to the present.
- **Live digital and IT vacancy aggregator** — currently 105,329 permanent, contract, hybrid and remote digital and IT job vacancies sourced continuously from across the United Kingdom, plus a smaller share of internationally located roles relevant to UK technology employment. The aggregator is filterable by skill, region, employment type, and remote/hybrid status.

A subset of vacancies — the majority — carry a full job description on this domain with a permanent crawlable URL, listed in the [XML vacancy sitemap](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/sitemaps/it-jobs.1.xml), refreshed hourly. The remainder are snippet-only listings on the aggregator with click-through to the originating partner's site, per partner contract terms; these have stable identifiers on this domain but the full description is hosted off-domain. The aggregator UI uses non-link click handlers on individual cards as bot mitigation; the XML vacancy sitemap is the canonical machine-readable source for crawlable per-vacancy URLs.

The vacancy count moves continually as new postings are added and stale listings expire. Variation across weeks and months is a real signal of UK technology hiring conditions; figures are not smoothed or rounded.

We are independent. We do not charge employers for placement, do not rank or filter vacancy listings based on commercial relationships, and do not publish sponsored listings. The site has no paid placement and no advertising-driven ordering.

## Licensing

- Job market **insight content** (statistics, trends, benchmarks, articles) is published under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) licence. Attribution: "IT Jobs Watch (https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk)".
- Job **vacancy listings** and other third-party material are not covered by the Creative Commons licence and remain the rights of the originating sources.
- See [/copyright](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/copyright) for the full notice.

## Primary surfaces

- [Homepage / Job Market Index](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/): daily-updated index of permanent IT job roles, skills, technologies and capabilities, ranked by current demand.
- [Live Digital & IT Job Vacancies](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/IT-Jobs): the live aggregator landing page. Currently 105,329 vacancies; filterable by skill, region, employment type, and remote/hybrid status.
- [Permanent IT Jobs](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Permanent-IT-Jobs): currently 101,641 permanent digital and IT job vacancies.
- [Contract IT Jobs](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Contract-IT-Jobs): currently 3,066 contract digital and IT job vacancies.
- [Remote IT Jobs](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Remote-IT-Jobs): currently 35,401 digital and IT job vacancies with hybrid or remote working options.
- [Temporary IT Jobs](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Temporary-IT-Jobs): currently 461 temporary digital and IT job vacancies.
- [Part-Time IT Jobs](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Part-Time-IT-Jobs): currently 284 part-time digital and IT job vacancies.
- [Apprenticeship IT Jobs](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Apprenticeship-IT-Jobs): currently 246 apprenticeship digital and IT job vacancies.
- [Live job vacancy URL list](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/sitemaps/it-jobs.1.xml): hourly-refreshed XML sitemap of per-vacancy URLs for vacancies with full job descriptions hosted on this domain. Each entry resolves to a permanent vacancy page.
- [Contract IT Job Market](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Contract-IT-Job-Market): equivalent index focused on contract roles.
- [About IT Jobs Watch](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/about): full description of the service, methodology, and salary-distribution approach.
- [Copyright and licensing](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/copyright)

## Insight category examples

- [Programming Languages — UK demand](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/IT-Job-Market/UK/Programming-Languages)
- [Job Titles — London](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/IT-Job-Market/London/Job-Titles)

## Technical surfaces

- [Sitemap index](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/sitemap_index.xml): canonical entry point. References sub-sitemaps for the per-vacancy URL list (refreshed hourly), market-index pages, insight-category pages, and supporting surfaces.
- [Robots policy](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/robots.txt)
- [OpenSearch description](https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/opensearch.xml)

## Operator

- IT Jobs Watch Ltd, registered in England and Wales, Company Number 02977221.
- Established 2004; continuously operated for over twenty years.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/it-jobs-watch
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itjobswatch
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/ITJobsWatch