UK tech jobs surpass pre-pandemic levels, despite rising unemployment

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The IT sector employed about 1.6 million people in Q4 2020, versus 1.5 million in Q4 2019

The UK's IT job market continued to recruit strongly in 2020, despite overall UK unemployment rising to a five-year high of 5.1 per cent. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), t...

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