Facebook intends to recruit another 500 employees in the UK, taking its headcount from 1,000 to just over 1,500 people, according to a report in the Telegraph. It’s the latest in a series of UK job announcements from Silicon Valley tech giants.

Last week, Google said that the campus is it building near Kings Cross would result in 3,000 new British jobs by 2020. Amazon has also said publicly that it aims to create an extra 1,000 jobs in the UK, while Apple is planning to set up its new UK headquarters in the Battersea Power Station that is currently being redeveloped.

Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will confirm the plans in a speech at the CBI’s annual conference today. In a statement issued ahead of the speech by Facebook, she said:

“The UK remains one of the best places to be a tech company and is an important part of Facebooks story. We came to London in 2007 with just a handful of people, by the end of next year we will have opened a new HQ and plan to employ 1500 people. Many of those new roles will be high skilled engineering jobs as the UK is home to our largest engineering base outside of the US and is where we have developed new products like Workplace.”