02.1 Powering Workforce Growth France’s tech worker population grew at the fastest WORKFORCE GROWTH rate of any European country in 2018 French tech workforce growth in 2018, % based on a comparison of the size of 7.3 the workforce in October 2018 versus October 2017. The rate of tech workforce growth across Europe The rate of tech workforce growth across Europe is not equally distributed with workforces in some countries is not equally distributed, with workforces in some growing much faster than others. France, for example, hit 7.3% growth in 2018, making it comfortably the fastest- countries growing much faster than others. growing tech workforce in Europe YoY growth in the worker population of the Finland 3.9% Top 20 largest tech workforces by country in Italy 3.5% 2018 Sweden 3.4% DATASET: 11-20 United Kingdom 3.3% LEGEND Denmark 3.3% 2018 Romania 3.1% Netherlands 3.0% Bulgaria 2.8% Czech Republic 1.9% Hungary 1.1% 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 YoY growth (%) Note: Based on an analysis of sample pool of LinkedIn members and the difference between those in 2018 working in the Tech Source: Sector in each country from this sample pool and those in 2017. & 16 In Partnership with www.thestateofeuropeantech.com Photo:Jussi Ratilainen