Yes. We ran some back-of-the-envelope numbers last week at the office. Wolfram provided us with a ballpark figure that there are about 70k "IT industry profess

Yes. We ran some back-of-the-envelope numbers last week at the office. Wolfram provided us with a ballpark figure that there are about 70k "IT industry professionals" in London region. Of this, 10-15% (so maybe 12k) are the good ones, and absolutely everybody is fighting for them. There are more than 10k tech industry companies in London alone. [0] Competition for talent is fierce, to say the least - and every single startup I know of is hiring. Us included. 0: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/10/tech-city-uk-ceo-gerard-grech-qa-wired http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/10/tech-city-uk-... (24% of 47k)