UK Tech Job Openings Climb 21% To Pre-Pandemic Highs (theregister.com) 17
UK tech job openings have surged 21% to pre-pandemic levels, driven largely by a 200% spike in demand for AI skills. London accounted for 80% of the AI-related postings. The Register reports: Accenture collected data from LinkedIn in the first and second week of February 2025, and supplemented the results with a survey of more than 4,000 respondents conducted by research firm YouGov between July and August 2024. The research found a 53 percent annual increase in those describing themselves as having tech skills, amounting to 1.69 million people reporting skills in disciplines including cyber, data, and robotics. [...]
The research found that London-based companies said they would allocate a fifth of their tech budgets to AI this year, compared to 13 percent who said the same and were based in North East England, Scotland, and Wales. Growth in revenue per employee increased during the period when LLMs emerged, from 7 percent annually between 2018 and 2022 to 27 percent between 2018 and 2024. Meanwhile, growth in the same measure fell slightly in industries less affected by AI, such as mining and hospitality, the researchers said.
The research found that London-based companies said they would allocate a fifth of their tech budgets to AI this year, compared to 13 percent who said the same and were based in North East England, Scotland, and Wales. Growth in revenue per employee increased during the period when LLMs emerged, from 7 percent annually between 2018 and 2022 to 27 percent between 2018 and 2024. Meanwhile, growth in the same measure fell slightly in industries less affected by AI, such as mining and hospitality, the researchers said.
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Silicone Valley is laying people off. [mercurynews.com]
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And then Microsoft will hire them all, at reduced salaries because there's a surplus, and laugh while all their foolish competitors fail. It's a dastardly plan but it mmight just work.
Reading the article (Score:2)
Reading the article
It's the usual company which sells product or service X releases research that demand for product X is dramatically increasing. Releasing 'research' to talk their own book.
- "UK tech vacancies are up by 21 percent ... according to research from Accenture."
- "a surge in demand for AI skills"
Research data quality indicators
- "collected data from LinkedIn" and "a survey of more than 4,000 respondents"
- Self reported data - "research found a 53 percent annual increase in those describing the
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At least make it sound as if you're not being paid to write this, for crying out loud.
Back to the article: basing any insight on the number of job adverts is bogus. Everybody knows that most adverts are for jobs that don't exist (ask any recruitment agent that you know socially).
And the skills available come from self-reporting. Guess what? In a boom, everybody says they have the skills. A friend of mine is selling herself as an AI expert when she graduated in fashion and has worked in retail for decades.
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It ain't over until the fat lady orgasms (Score:1)
Dad: There's 4 billion openings out there, just gotta go out there and get one! Now let's go over that diagram of a vulva again on LeetCode on the off chance you get to see one for real
A lot of catching up to do (Score:2)
"The UK has a golden opportunity to establish itself as a global AI leader, and London is at the epicenter."
That's wishful thinking. The UK and the entire EU is way behind in cloud infrastructure and AI tech. It is a serious vulnerability and it may not be easy to home-grow the critical aspects of that tech.
I think there are several tiers of AI expertise. The top tier is the developers of the AI engines. How to architect the neural networks, train models, produce inferences, etc. This isn't likely to be som
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No idea what you are smoking.
The EU has pretty solid cloud infra structure.
And in general one would not connect the idea of AI with "cloud". Cloud implies mostly data and dumb CPUs, while implies more GPUs.
Obviously it overlaps greatly.
Otherwise I agree with your points.
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>> The EU has pretty solid cloud infra structure.
Perhaps I should have said AI data centers equipped with Nvidia GPU's and the associated memory, networking, and cooling systems.
https://blog.neevcloud.com/wha... [neevcloud.com]
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I'd really rather London wasn't the epicentre of anything else, the UK is already far too London-centric. However...
I actually think the UK could do some really good things with AI (and tech in general). We have less resources than Silicon Valley, and we (culturally) don't really "go big", instead preferring to quietly do something without making too much fuss. We've only learned to toot our own horn from our American cousins, and we're really not very good at it (or keen on it in ourselves, or in other peo
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I wonder that too. It seems to me that the compute requirements for the existing AI engines aren't realistically scalable with the demand. The company that can dial this down could wind up on top of the stack.
Its a YouGov report (Score:2)
AKA - likely propaganda or curated demographic.
People in the UK know YouGov is not a trusted source.
Thanks for your time
A.Person , shat out the failing UK games industry.