IT Security/Cyber Security.
With the new public sector IR35 stuff, there's likely to be a tulip-storm hitting before April.
Dozens of GCHQ contractors will either decline to renew and try to jump to the private sector, or...just retire.
HMRC is likely to lose a lot/most IT Security contractors on its books inside the next few weeks, as will The Home Office, MOD, FCO, Treasury, the last of the NHS Trusts with contractors, every Local Authority, County Councils, NATs, TfL...indeed an awful lot of the nations critical infrastructure is going to be lacking some key skilled resources - all at the same time.
Those left will likely be ones whose skills are-in-doubt, and thus can't find a role in the private sector.
I think a lot of public sector contractors will just take an extended break; see how things pan-out...perhaps gain some skills useful in the private sector, see what happens to the HMRC. For sure they'll be an awful lot of public sector contract roles - there's an estimate the civil service will need 30,000 staff for Brexit alone. People who can afford it will wait.
When financial crime groups and perhaps Russia and the DPRK figure-out that the UK has pretty much dropped its guard, then poor old Philip Hammond is not going to be flavor-of-the-month/year/decade. I suspect the real humdinger outages/data losses/breaches will occur in August and then the government will go into complete headless-chicken mode. By then the remaining permies in some sites will have completely lost-the-plot and those with a clue will have gone on a well-deserved holiday having spent months trying to make up for the shortfall when the contractors left.
In the meantime there's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) set to go live across Europe in May 2018. That will create loads-of-work in the private sector which will need an awful lot of contractors. And they'll be Brexit work too, though that isn't necessarily related to security work.
It's going to be a really interesting year, and we really have HMRC to thank for it.
With the new public sector IR35 stuff, there's likely to be a tulip-storm hitting before April.
Dozens of GCHQ contractors will either decline to renew and try to jump to the private sector, or...just retire.
HMRC is likely to lose a lot/most IT Security contractors on its books inside the next few weeks, as will The Home Office, MOD, FCO, Treasury, the last of the NHS Trusts with contractors, every Local Authority, County Councils, NATs, TfL...indeed an awful lot of the nations critical infrastructure is going to be lacking some key skilled resources - all at the same time.
Those left will likely be ones whose skills are-in-doubt, and thus can't find a role in the private sector.
I think a lot of public sector contractors will just take an extended break; see how things pan-out...perhaps gain some skills useful in the private sector, see what happens to the HMRC. For sure they'll be an awful lot of public sector contract roles - there's an estimate the civil service will need 30,000 staff for Brexit alone. People who can afford it will wait.
When financial crime groups and perhaps Russia and the DPRK figure-out that the UK has pretty much dropped its guard, then poor old Philip Hammond is not going to be flavor-of-the-month/year/decade. I suspect the real humdinger outages/data losses/breaches will occur in August and then the government will go into complete headless-chicken mode. By then the remaining permies in some sites will have completely lost-the-plot and those with a clue will have gone on a well-deserved holiday having spent months trying to make up for the shortfall when the contractors left.
In the meantime there's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) set to go live across Europe in May 2018. That will create loads-of-work in the private sector which will need an awful lot of contractors. And they'll be Brexit work too, though that isn't necessarily related to security work.
It's going to be a really interesting year, and we really have HMRC to thank for it.
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