BT looks to India to plug digital skills gap

UK incumbent BT has launched a recruitment drive for its fledgling Digital division that will grow its headcount by 2,800 people, with only the minority being UK-based.
Roles span product management, software engineering, cloud, design, data, AI and machine learning, and agile delivery. The UK talent pool in these areas is either too shallow or too expensive (or both), because the majority of the new recruits, around 1,800, will be based in India. Specifically Gurugram and Bengaluru in the north