The U.K. gave just 325 exceptional talent visas to experts in the technology industry last year
Talent, talent, talent. That’s been the talk of the town at this year’s London Tech Week. Everyone from the Silicon Valley tech giants right down to the hot new startups are struggling to fill their ranks.
In 2015, the British government extended its Tier 1 Exceptional Talent to tech in a bid to placate firms angry they couldn’t hire top American, Indian and Chinese developers with the skillset for the most challenging tech jobs. “The exceptional talent visa is possibly the best tech visa in the world. It’s such an easy win for the U.K., especially at a time that the U.S. is making it harder and harder for foreign talent to come in.”
Some tech workers can also move to the U.K. on the Tier 2 visa. However, Theresa May capped this visa at 20,700 a year, and tech workers must compete with lawyers, accountants and other professionals if they want one.The looming prospect of Brexit has sharpened discussion about visas in the U.K.’s tech sector as firms face up to the prospect of being cut off from Europe—one of the biggest and most easily available sources of talent.
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