Wipro revealed its expansion plans during Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's visit to India last week. The company already has a 2,000-strong U.K. work force and will increase the headcount by 500 in 2007 at its existing facilities in Reading and new sites in lower-cost parts of the U.K., including Birmingham.

Kees Tenninjenhuis, European senior vice president at Wipro, told Silicon.com as the company starts offering higher-value services to U.K. customers it needs more local experience.

All of the major Indian players are trying to position themselves as less Indian and more global.

"We are looking for centers that would be cheaper than Reading and near a university," he said. "We are starting with 100 to 200 and scale up to 500. We will send them to India for several months to become fully trained in our methods and processes. We are becoming bigger and more global."