2025 Lovelace Report | Unlocking £2 – 3.5 Billion: The Value Of Keeping Women In Tech
In the last year, between 40,000 and 60,000 women left their tech roles based on a conservative 10% to 15% annual turnover rate. Some exit the industry permanently, taking their expertise and experience with them. Others cycle between employers, seeking opportunities their current roles deny them. Of the women leaving their current tech roles, roughly 45% are stepping away from the sector altogether.
Women are leaving tech not because they lack ambition, but because the structure of progression fails them.
The exodus of an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 women leaving their tech role each year, either by exiting the industry altogether or moving to a new tech employer is resulting in a £2 billion to £3.5 billion annual loss for the UK tech sector, at a time when talent is needed most to reach national ambitions and government commitments.
