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<p>The table below sets out the number of staff recruited by the Government Digital
Service (GDS) in each of the last seven years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>266</p></td><td><p>192</p></td><td><p>182</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><ul><li>To 31 Aug 2018</li></ul><p> </p><p>Many areas of work undertaken by GDS
require specialist skills that are not always readily available from within the Civil
Service. In order to tackle changing priorities, there has been a significant requirement
to recruit fixed term contract staff (83% of the total recruited in the years shown)
for periods of up to two years and the recruitment numbers reflect the turnover in
this category of the workforce.</p>
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