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THE UK IT ASSOCIATION (UKITA) IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT MEMBERSHIP ORGANISATION AND TRADE ASSOCIATION WITH A MAIN BOARD COMPOSED OF MEMBERS ELECTED BY THE MEMBERSHIP AS A WHOLE.

We are for the 98% of the IT and Tech companies in the UK with fewer that 250 employees - this is what the UK government calls 'Small and Medium Enterprises' or SME. 

UKITA is run BY IT/Tech practitioners - we are not bureaucrats or career membership professionals. We are not just FOR the IT SME sector, WE ARE THE IT SME SECTOR.  

 Digital Nation Pie Chart

 Source: Calling The Digital Nation published by UKITA 2011

In fact many are actually sole traders or independent consultants and the average size of a UK IT/Tech business is  actually FIVE people!

The government and media are seemingly fixated on 'Tech' by which they seem to mean no of the following categories:

 

  • The global corporate giants, usually US-based, who famously seek to avoid paying any tax to the UK exchequer but seem to be very influential on central government policy
  • High-growth startups which draw in funding which pays one or two people who build an online product derived from a similar idea to something that already exists and whose aim is primarily to SELL the company, often to an overseas giant, at the earlier possible moment which makes a few people rich but generates little employment or tax revenue for the UK
  • The large corporate UK and international IT companies which get involved in tax-payer funded projects for Central Government, with well-known results such as charging £70 for a power lead, running massively over budget and projects that are abandoned after having cost 4 times the original estimate 

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