UK / One in five skilled jobs filled by immigrants

One in five skilled British jobs are now filled by immigrants  s experts warn UK is becoming too reliant on foreign workers 

The UK is damaging its prospects by relying too heavily on immigrants to fill highly skilled jobs, a damning report reveals today.

A fifth of workers in sectors relying on engineers such as oil and gas extraction, computing, electronics and optics are immigrants because there are ‘not enough resident workers to fill the available jobs’.

In addition, engineering and technology subjects in British universities recruit 32 per cent of their students from overseas.

However engineering is a ‘long-term necessity’ for the country, according to a Government-commissioned review, led by Professor John Perkins, chief scientific adviser to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS).

His report says the ‘on-going increase in demand for specialist engineering skills outstrips the potential supply in the short term’.

There is evidence of shortages in specific areas of the industry, and as the economy changes there will be more need for professionals to work in the sector.

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