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Before Covid-19, European employers seeking to fill tech jobs had found it increasingly difficult with growing numbers of open positions classifed by Indeed as hard to fill, in other words that they remained open for longer than six months. In the UK, for example, there had been a 43% increase in the share of tech job vacancies classified as hard to fill between October 2018 and October 2019. For the year to October 2020, however, this trend has been completely reversed, resulting in a 23% decline in the share of tech jobs classified as hard to fill. Similar patterns are repeated in other countries, such as France and the Netherlands. Interestingly, the reversal has much much less apparent in certain markets, such as Portugal, Germany and Belgium, which indicate that it remains challenging to find the demand to fill the supply of available tech jobs.