September 04, 2006
Offshore success bites into UK tech workforce
Research analyst firm Ovum has thrown up some alarming facts for the UK job scenario in the technology sector. According to the report, the number of offshore workers delivering work to the UK organizations will double within a period of three years, touching a figure of 130,000 offshore workers. On the flip side of the coin, there is going to be a 6% drop in the number of onshore software and IT services staff.
While there is a steady number of UK-based workers being absorbed by offshore companies, this job channel is not enough to counter the fall in UK-based jobs in the IT and software sector.
Ovum senior analyst Phil Codling makes a frightening statement on Silicon.com:
We face the prospect of a skills time-bomb in IT. It is not clear where the next generation of highly-skilled, experienced programme and project managers will come from.
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