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  • Employer Skills Survey 2024

    Topics:
    • Employment and skills programmes (including apprenticeships), 
    • Skills strategies

    Date published: 6 November 2025

    Last updated: 20 November 2025

    The Employer Skills Survey (ESS) is a large-scale survey of employers across the UK, designed to understand the skills challenges faced by business, including their extent, nature and impact within both their existing workforce, and when recruiting.

    The ESS 2024 provides a vital source of intelligence on the skills issues faced by employers. It covers a range of topics:

    •    recruitment and skill-shortage vacancies; 
    •    skills gaps in the existing workforce; 
    •    training and workforce development;
    •    apprenticeships; 
    •    high performance working practices; and
    •    employers’ current and planned use of Artificial Intelligence.

    Create your own tables on the Employer Skills Survey

    Choose the data and area of interest you want to explore and then use filters to create your table. Once you've created your table, you can download the data it contains for your own offline analysis.

    • Create your own tables on the Employer Skills Survey (gov.uk interactive tables)

    Documents

    • Employer Skills Survey 2024 ReportAdobe PDF (1.45 MB)
    • Employer Skills Survey 2024 Northern Ireland tablesMicrosoft Excel (2.44 MB)
    • Employer Skills Survey 2024 Regional BreakdownMicrosoft Excel (691.33 KB)
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