Hundreds of roles on offer as P2P lenders join UK hiring spree
Technology and engineering roles are among the top jobs going at peer-to-peer lenders as unemployment rates decline across the UK.
Office for National Statistics data has shown that the UK unemployment rate declined to 4.7 per cent in the three months to June, down from 4.8 per cent previously.
The number of vacancies, meanwhile, have hit one million for the first time.
P2P lending firms are among companies on hiring sprees.
There are more than 120 roles being advertised among the largest UK P2P lenders.
Funding Circle has more than 75 roles, mainly for software engineers and in its data team but it is also still advertising for a head of card products.
Zopa has 35 roles in its online careers section, mainly in technology and data engineering.
Lending Works is advertising nine roles across specialities such as analytics and technology while Assetz Capital has eight including for two software engineers.
P2P lending platforms have been on a recruitment drive over the past year, ramping up hiring plans as they expand their teams in anticipation of new business.
Invest & Fund, CrowdProperty and Rebuildingsociety have all added to their teams in recent months.