The government's vision for harnessing digital transformation and
building a more inclusive, competitive and innovative digital
economy.
UK Digital
Strategy
UK Digital Strategy - PDF
version (as published on 13 July 2022)
Visa routes for digital
employers
Details
The Digital Strategy is a cross-government strategy which sets
out a coherent articulation of the government’s ambitious agenda
for digital policy.
The strategy focuses on 6 key areas:
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Digital foundations: an update on the Plan
for Digital Regulation and the supply-side offer to the
digital economy. This includes a focus on: digital
infrastructure, data, regulation and digital markets, and
security.
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Ideas and intellectual property:
consolidation of the government’s work to support the
innovation ecosystem, including in universities and the
private sector. This builds on the Innovation Strategy with a
specific focus on digital technology.
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Digital skills and talent: highlights UK
Government’s work to reform and improve our skills and talent
provision for the digital economy. This includes:
strengthening the digital education pipeline, increasing
awareness of the pathways into digital occupations, work to
develop an enhanced digital skills base, growing people’s
access to digital skills through alternative routes, our work
with the private and third sectors, and this government’s
reforms to enable UK firms to recruit the best global talent.
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Financing digital growth: demonstrates the
government’s commitment to improving the tech ecosystem to
ensure that the UK remains one of the best places in the
world to start and run a digital technology business. This
includes work to improve access to finance through the
British Business Bank and British Patient Capital, embedding
the technology revolution across the economy through Fintech,
and this government’s push to make the UK the best place to
list an ambitious technology business.
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Spreading prosperity and levelling up:
covers how we are using digital technologies to support the
achievement of key strategic priorities: enhancing
productivity through technology adoption, improving our
public services, levelling up, and net zero.
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Enhancing the UK’s place in the world:
focuses on how the UK will use its strategic advantage in
digital and tech to influence global decisions for the
evolving digital world. It emphasises this government’s
commitment to maintaining the UK as a science and technology
superpower and how HMG is helping to set global standards on
Digital products and services.
This page also includes an infographic
setting out visa routes for digital employers (PDF, 267KB),
which is explained in section 3 (digital skills and talent) of
the strategy documents (PDF and HTML).
Please note that this infographic was updated on 3 October 2022
to reflect the latest information on visa routes. The PDF version
of the Digital Strategy was published on 13 June 2022, and
includes an earlier version of this infographic. If you
are using the PDF version of the Digital Strategy, please also
refer to the updated
visa routes infographic to ensure you are aware of the latest
information.
