The company recorded an 18% drop in vacancies under £25,000 coupled with a 3% rise in vacancies above the £25,000 figure compared to the same three-month period last year.
George Thompson, joint managing director of Harrison Scott Associates, said: "Many companies are trying to trade themselves out of this downturn and are looking to high-calibre sales staff and high performance execs to help them do this," Thompson said.
He added: "I used to tell clients that the demand for sales staff in print in the South East is 10:1, my view is that it is more like 12:1 now."
Andrew Brown, corporate affairs director at BPIF, said that the increasing popularity of software such as web-to-print is helping to take out the indirect costs such as estimating for the smaller, short-run jobs.
"Companies could be more likely to concentrate their sales forces on the bigger accounts where the larger jobs lie," he said.
Brown added: "These figures could be showing that the more experienced staff are being taken on to handle such work, while demand for lower rank jobs is decreasing."
Recruiter says printers 'trading themselves' out of economic downturn
Printers are "trading themselves out" of the downturn and fuelling an increase in demand for sales executive positions paying over 25,000 per annum, according to print, packaging and paper recruitment group Harrison Scott.
