The UK Border Agency publishes a list of shortage occupations, and in 2014 half of the jobs were for engineers and more than one-fifth were other technical and scientific occupations. At the other end...

The UK Border Agency publishes a list of shortage occupations, and in 2014 half of the jobs were for engineers and more than one-fifth were other technical and scientific occupations. At the other end of the job market, international migrants often fill the very low-skilled jobs that are difficult to fill from the UK population – fruit picking, for example.