Evaluate Technologies set to swell staff by a fifth

Evaluate Technologies will recruit up to 10 staff by the start of next year as it looks to expand further into the online mortgage sourcing market.

The recruitment drive follows an upgrade of Evaluate's online mortgage comparison service for brokers, allowing them to integrate it into their own websites and cut search times by as much as 50%, according to the company.

The new roles will include web developers, infrastructure support engineers, analysts and support administrators in line with the group's efforts to provide to the intermediary market.

Jonathan Midgley, managing director at Evaluate says: "The online sourcing market is going through a period of consolidation with many existing firms being sold and others withdrawing from the market.

"We are determined to play a major role in reshaping the market and responding to the demand from brokers and consumer partners. We have ambitious plans for growth and the recruitment drive is part of that ambition which we aim to deliver during 2010."

He adds: "Evaluate believes there are major opportunities for brokers who tackle the issue of lenders increasingly going direct to consumers and is urging them to enhance their online offering in order to maintain and grow leads."