O c t o b e r 2 The Future of Jobs

United Kingdom
Working Age Population
46,380,358
1 / 2
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99.7%
52.6%
44.1%
62.5%
58.6%
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11.1%
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12.9%
47.5%
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Current skills in focus of existing reskilling/upskilling
programmes
Share of companies surveyed identifying this skill as being in focus
across their reskilling or upskilling programmes
1.
Analytical thinking and innovation
2.
Leadership and social influence
3.
Active learning and learning strategies
4.
Critical thinking and analysis
5.
Technology design and programming
6.
Technology use, monitoring and control
7.
Emotional intelligence
8.
Complex problem-solving
9.
Service orientation
10.
Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
Retrain existing employees
Hire new permanent staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Expect existing employees to pick up skills on
the job
Look to automate the work
Hire new temporary staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Hire freelancers with skills relevant to new
technologies
Outsource some business functions to external
contractors
Average reskilling needs
Share of workforce of companies surveyed within this data
Projected use of training providers
Share of companies surveyed
43.7%
Internal learning and development
21.7%
External online training
17.1%
Private training providers
7.4%
Private educational institutions
6%
Public educational institutions
4.2%
Public training providers