{"id":139458,"date":"2025-06-05T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=139458"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:20:55","slug":"uk-tech-job-market-rebounds-as-london-leads-uks-ai-boom-accenture-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2025\/06\/05\/uk-tech-job-market-rebounds-as-london-leads-uks-ai-boom-accenture-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"UK tech job market rebounds as London leads UK&#8217;s AI boom, Accenture Research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A surge in demand for AI professionals has helped tech job vacancies across the UK to grow by 21% in a year, with the UK expanding its tech talent pool to its highest level since 2019, according to new data from <em>Accenture&#8217;s UK Tech Talent Tracker<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research, which tracks the UK\u2019s technology sector vacancies and skills, indicates a nearly 200% year-on-year increase in demand for AI skills across UK cities. Despite efforts to promote tech innovation in other regions, nearly two-thirds (65%) of technology vacancies are in London, with the capital accounting for 80% of demand for AI skills across all UK cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While London continues to drive growth, the UK has expanded its technology talent pool by 53% in a year, resulting in nearly 1.69m professionals reporting skills in disciplines, including cyber, data and robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional research indicates that organisations based in London are ahead in preparing for the impact of Generative AI, investing more in training and technology. Approximately 58% of businesses in London have increased their investment in upskilling in Generative AI, compared to 40% of firms outside London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma Kendrew, Accenture\u2019s Technology Lead in the UK, said, \u201cThe UK has a golden opportunity to establish itself as a global AI leader and London is at the epicentre. The UK is seeing hotspots of tech talent emerge which we expect to grow as AI is more widely adopted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surge in demand for AI professionals has helped tech job vacancies across the UK to grow by 21% in a year, with the UK expanding its tech talent pool to its highest level since 2019, according to new data from Accenture&#8217;s UK Tech Talent Tracker. The research, which tracks the UK\u2019s technology sector vacancies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4189,"featured_media":139460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21064,17482,14589,18793,21309,6617,21754,93,23],"tags":[3476,158,11193,69,8,19723,66,2969,6852,700,31,5006],"class_list":["post-139458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-cybersecurity","category-data","category-europe","category-genai","category-research","category-technology-ciso","category-top-stories","category-united-kingdom","tag-accenture","tag-ai","tag-cyber","tag-data","tag-europe","tag-genai","tag-innovation","tag-london","tag-research","tag-robotics","tag-technology","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139461,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139458\/revisions\/139461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}