UK lagging behind other countries in digital skills, Barclays report finds

Worldwide study finds that while 39% of Brazilians think they could build a website, only 16% of British workers feel the same

Only 16% of workers in the UK would be comfortable building a website, compared with 39% in Brazil and 37% in India, according to a report, which warns that Britain's digital skills lag behind other countries'.

A report into digital education, skills and confidence, commissioned by Ashok Vaswani, the chief executive of Barclays UK, found that Britain, one of the most active online consumer markets in the world, is being outpaced when it comes to being able to create new digital technologies.