According to a regular monthly survey of the recruitment industry, the recovery in the jobs market appears to be slowing down.

The latest Report on Jobs from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG, based on a survey of 400 recruitment agencies, shows that although the number of permanent and temporary staff taken on by employers last month continued to grow, it was at a slower rate than over the previous five months this year.

The agencies also reported that demand from employers for permanent staff had increased in June.  However, the report notes that there were “higher levels of availability were recorded for both permanent and temporary staff”, in other words there was an increase in the number of people looking for both sorts of work.

Commenting on the Report’s findings, Bernard Brown of KPMG commented:

“Demand for workers across all sectors continued to rise in June. Clearly, the proposed public sector cuts have not yet had an impact on the UK jobs market. However, it can now be only a matter of time before we will start to see the impact of the government’s efficiency savings strategy which is likely to leave hundreds of thousands of public sector workers looking for employment. The big challenge will be to transfer as many of these jobs as possible to the private sector through outsourcing and divestment, otherwise the economy will be put under enormous pressure at all levels.”