London is 'talent capital' of the world London has been dubbed the world's "talent capital." The accolade has been awarded by business advisers Deloitte after a survey of 22 high-value sectors ranging from banking to telecoms and digital media. The results put London comfortably in the lead, with 1.5m people apparently employed in the "high skill" sectors, compared with 1.2m in New York, 784,000 in Los Angeles, and 630,000 in Hong Kong. Deloitte researchers delved into official employment data in the cities to arrive at the conclusion that London employed the most people in 12 of the sectors, such as banking, legal services and digital media, while New York was ahead of the field in just seven. The detail identifies further pointers to rebalancing in key areas, with media and digital employment thriving in the age of Facebook and Twitter and financial services contracting in the post-crisis age. The upshot is that Deloitte is forecasting minimum net growth of 300,000 jobs in London by 2020 with at least a third of them in the high-skill sectors.