Professional services firm Ernst & Young’s director of information, Mark Brown, has said today that the success of UK IT Offshoring in the late 90’s, allowed a domestic skill gap to open.

The success of Offshore IT service providers allowed UK based businesses to neglect the UK skill market.

IT businesses are now seeking to help train the next generation of UK IT employees, this includes the development of the national IT curriculum, which in the past has been criticised for failing to teach core skills that the IT industry desires.

Mr Brown said: “We have to look at how we address what we're teaching our kids at school today.”

Companies that delivered these past Offshored services, such as major corporations in India, are now helping to establish UK student skills, in order to develop the UK IT marketplace.

Mr Brown commented that the UK had already created a strong IT security industry set for future growth.