Despite being world-renowned as a centre of the tech industry, Silicon Valley has fallen some way behind other cities as an attractive destination for ICT talent, finds a report from analytics firm Intelligence Group.

Silicon Valley is 11th on the global attractiveness list, behind London, New York and Singapore, in first, second and third places – 2.8m people worldwide would be interested in working in Silicon Valley.

A large number of those interested in working there come from three of the four BRIC nations – 38% of potential Silicon Valley workers are from India, 22% from China and 9% from Russia. After this, French and Germans (5% each) are the biggest potential talent source, while the final BRIC nation, Brazil, does not feature.

The demographics of those interested in Silicon Valley are overwhelmingly male (94%) and highly educated – 40% have a masters degree and 3% a PhD, both above the global average.