Tech Workers Confirm UK Skills Gap Still A Problem

Tech Workers Confirm UK Skills Gap Still A Problem

Sector skills body e-skills UK said around 140,000 vacancies a year need to be filled across IT professions, yet pointed out the UK only has around 12,000 computer science grads annually.
A large majority (72 percent) of the survey respondents also believed the skills gap is growing year-on-year. Asked why there is a skills shortage in the UK, more than half (55 percent) of respondents cited rapid changes within the IT sector, with the same proportion blaming a lack of IT support pros.



Earlier this year the UK government gave the go-ahead for a National Skills Academy for Information Technology to boost techie numbers in the UK. The Academy will open its doors next year and aims to train 10,000 people in the first three years of operation.