Headlines from the latest Employer Skills Survey 2022 compared to 2017
• Employers with at least one vacancy: up, 23 per cent in 2022 (20 per cent in 2017)
•Employers with at least one skill-shortage vacancy: up,10 per cent (6 per cent)
• Skill-shortage vacancy density (SSVs as a share of vacancies): up, 36 per cent (22 per cent)
• Employers with at least one skill gap (one or more employees not fully proficient): up, 15 per cent (13 per cent)
• Skill gap density (proportion of employees judged not fully proficient): up, 5.7 per cent (4.4 per cent)
• Employers funding or arranging any staff training during the previous 12 months: down, 60 per cent (66 per cent)
• Employers providing on-the-job training: down, 49 per cent (53 per cent)
• Employers providing off-the-job training: down, 39 per cent (48 per cent)
• Employees receiving training: down, 60 per cent (62 per cent).
• Average investment in training per employee: down £1,780 (£2,010, inflation adjusted).
Even small changes in these percentages represent a large number of workers – Britain has over 30 million people employed. And over 4 million more are self-employed, many are workers by any other name – their skill shortages don’t show up on the employer survey.
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