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

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/05/2316...

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.

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