E-commerce giant Amazon will create 2,000 new jobs in the UK this year, bringing its total UK workforce to 29,500, reports City A.M. Amazon said the new positions would include engineers, software developers, data scientists and experts in cloud and machine learning, along with a number of entry-level roles. Of those created, more than 170 roles will be based in Amazon’s tech development centres in Cambridge, Edinburgh and London. Chancellor Philip Hammond said the decision was “a clear vote of confidence in the British economy”.