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Travel jobs market set for buoyant autumn
Recruitment firm C&M is expecting a particularly buoyant jobs market this autumn after positive figures from July and August.
It said salaries often dip in the summer, but this year July and August have both seen an increase.
The latest Travel Salary Index from C&M Recruitment Consultancy and Chisholm & Moore Executive Recruitment, which studied all new vacancies registered at the companies in August 2013, found that the average new travel role paid £24,787.
This represents a 0.92% increase compared to July and a more impressive 3.53% rise since August 2012.
Even more positively, the three-month average figure, which is a more reliable indicator of trends, only fell by 0.52% (or £128) compared to July and increased by 1.60% annually.
C&M Recruitment Consultancy sales director Barbara Kolosinska, said: "This marks the second consecutive monthly rise in travel job salaries, which hopefully means that the falls we saw at the start of the summer were a temporary blip.
"Salaries often seem to dip in the summer months, so to have seen consecutive increases in July and August is an extremely encouraging indicator for the usually more buoyant autumn season."
But while salaries were on the rise, August saw a small monthly dip in both the number of new candidates registering with C&M and Chisholm & Moore and the number of new job vacancies advertised at the companies, compared with July.
However, there was a significant annual increase in the number of candidate registrations compared to August 2012, while the amount of vacancies remained relatively static.
"The summer lull in the jobs market is hopefully coming to an end now that September is here and people have arrived back from their holidays. Many people’s attentions will now return to their careers and we expect to see increases in both the number of new applicants and vacancies in the next few months," added Kolosinska.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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