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Posted: Wed, March 12, 2008
Foreign IT workers on the riseThe number of foreign workers entering the IT industry in the UK is continuing to increase.According to the Association of Technology Staffing companies (ATSCo), 82 per cent of the 38,450 work permits given to IT workers from outside the EU in 2007 were handed to people from India. In 2006, 33,756 permits were given out to non-EU IT workers. Citing data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, ATSCo also noted that over the last five years the number of foreign IT workers entering the UK has risen by 209 per cent. Commenting on the findings, Ann Swain of ATSCo, said: "There was a fear that support functions would be the thin edge of the wedge and that mid-level IT roles would go offshore next, but what is happening is quite different. Foreign IT workers are actually coming to the UK to take these mid-level roles." Atsco noted that the majority of the permits were giving to workers who were moving between their company's offices, often refereed to as 'onshore offshoring'. 
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