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UK Tech Job Openings Climb 21% To Pre-Pandemic Highs (theregister.com) 14

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.

UK Tech Job Openings Climb 21% To Pre-Pandemic Highs

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  • by Virtucon ( 127420 ) on Thursday June 05, 2025 @10:14PM (#65430964)

    Silicone Valley is laying people off. [mercurynews.com]

    • Silicon valley tech giants seem to be engineering an AI tech bubble, using employees as cannon fodder to give the illusion that AI in its current form can replace employees. Take microsoft as an example, they commanded their software devs to develop 50% of their code using AI, then fired a load of them with the public announcement that their AI product is so good they can fire their own staff. If AI can take over software jobs (which I personally don't believe will be the case), I'd expect to see an initial
      • 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.

  • Governments and media love talking about openings. What about the actual hires?

    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
  • "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

    • 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.

    • 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

    • I have to wonder how much AI progress will be governed by having more compute available, and how much by researching how to make it more compute-efficient or developing approaches that extend its capabilities without growing the model.
  • 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.

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