Welcome GTC!
Sadly, the market in the UK at the moment is pretty pants. Redundancies left right and centre are flooding the ''pilot pond'' with fish that are a far more attractive catch than a newly qualified low hour pilot.
That said, there are still lots of students, and friends of mine, that go over to the states and train, get their FAA CPL CFI/CFII, become instructors and rack up a lot of hours. They either do it through instruction, or working for tour companies, one guy that I trained with is flying the Canyon in an EC130, getting all important turbine time.
There is definitely a way to still get that job as a pilot, but I don't think that the UK is where you should look.