By John Glenday

LinkedIn has passed a significant milestone with news that the business-orientated social network now boasts in excess of 15m UK members, a 50 per cent increase from the 10m people who had signed up by September 2012.

Breaking the figures down by profession for the first time the social network revealed that in the UK it currently counts 12,530 journalists, 48,679 solicitors, 374,711 engineers, 4,083 farmers and 7,090 hairdressers amongst its number.

Unsurprisingly the majority hail from London with the next nearest urban centres being Birmingham with 284,000 members, Manchester with 250,000 and Reading with 213, 000. They join 277m members worldwide Read full story ›

Source: The Drum