Research and analysis

Employer skills survey 2017: UK findings

Main report and data tables on UK employers’ reported skill needs and training activities.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 16 August 2018
• Last updated: 8 October 2018
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  1. 8 October 2018

     Updated data tables and report to correct minor errors in the production of some skill gaps variables. Check report and tables for more details.

  2. 11 September 2018

     Table 5 of the UK data tables: corrected the data for the rows ‘Skill gaps only’ and ‘Neither SSVs nor Skills gaps’. The report and all other numbers in the tables are unaffected.

  3. 16 August 2018

     First published.

Documents

Employer skills survey 2017: main report

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78105-928-9, DFE-RR693

PDF, 6.17 MB, 227 pages

Employer skills survey 2017: UK data tables

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 2.08 MB

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Employer skills survey 2017: UK data tables

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Details

Information from over 87,000 employer establishments across the UK on skills needs, skills use and skills development.

Technical documentation, data tables and slides by nation are also available in the wider collection.