There are still next to no jobs for UK pilots. Ditto those caught in between with an EASA license and UK citizenship.
Bad planning I hear you say? Not quite, the UK CAA are taking their sweet time and up until earlier this year it was not 100% clear how the EASA/UK thing was going to play out. Even those who did apply last year only received their licenses recently due to the backlog. The CAA seem to be almost proud of their lengthy processing times at this point judging by my communications with them.
Perhaps there should be a thread pointing to all these UK jobs because on and off the forum people talk about them, but when asked to actually point to them they don't seem to be able to. It's like non aviation friends and family being shocked you're still unemployed because "the airports are all packed" .. it's a misguided assumption based on hype.
Wasn't there once a saying about the true sign of an active recruitment market being when BA hire??