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Employer Skills Survey 2024: UK Findings
Department for Education / Skills England · 27 November 2025 · Updated 18 June 2026
Learning & Performance. Four Corners commentary on a source published by Department for Education / Skills England.
A major UK employer survey covering skills needs, skills use, workforce development and training activity.
Key finding / idea
Rather than predicting what employers might need in the future, this gives practitioners extensive evidence about the skills and workforce issues employers are reporting now.
Why we picked it
Skills conversations can quickly become dominated by predictions about what organisations will need in five years. This gives us something more grounded. For anyone making decisions about capability, recruitment or learning investment, it provides a useful evidence base against which assumptions can be tested.
A question worth considering
Before building another skills programme, how confident are we that we've identified the actual problem?
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