The UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey (UKCESS)
The UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey (UKCESS) is the largest of its kind on the world. It gives a comprehensive and robust picture of skills needs and training investment in UK business.
Topics covered in the survey include training and staff development, vacancies and skills shortages, employee skill gaps and the recruitment of education leavers.
UKCESS 2013
The UKCESS 2013 is the most recent survey in the series, and the second UK-wide employer skills survey. The results provide a comprehensive source of data for users:
- Employers can identify how they compare to their sector in their provision of training or own experience of skill deficiency and identify key challenges and opportunities for their sector
- Individuals and careers advisers can identify sectors and occupations experiencing particular shortages
- Providers of training and development can use the results to help shape provision to need in their locality or their specialist areas
UKCESS 2013 Data
The UKCESS 2013 underlying data is made available under the Open Database Licence whose full text can be found at UK Open Government License (OGL).
UKCESS 2013 Infographics
UKCESS 2013 Evidence toolkits
UKCESS 2013 Media
UKCESS 2013 Technical resources
If you would like register an interest in accessing the full SPSS dataset from UKCESS 2013, please email [email protected]
Previous Employer Skills Surveys: 2003 to 2011
UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey
The latest version of the data available is 2013. The table below links to the resources produced in connection to UKCESS 2011. Please note that because of the complexity of harmonising surveys from the four UK nations in 2011, the 2011 UK Employer Skills Survey presented results in several versions. Information on how the tables compare with the evidence reports is provided below.
Please also note that in order to compare 2011 to 2013 results; the data tables comparable with evidence report 81 should be used due to a change in sampling strategy (for more details please see the 2013 Technical Report).
| UKCESS 2011: UK |
Main Report (PDF, 1.8 Mb)
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Underlying data tables (comparable with ER 45) (ODS, 2.0 Mb)
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| UKCESS 2011: England |
England 2011 report (PDF, 1.8 Mb)
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Underlying data tables (comparable with ER 46) (ODS, 2.2 Mb)
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| UKCESS 2011: Wales |
Wales 2011 report (PDF, 1.7 Mb)
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Underlying data tables (comparable with ER 62) (ODS, 1.6 Mb)
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| UKCESS 2011: Northern Ireland |
Northern Ireland 2011 report (PDF, 2.0 Mb)
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Underlying data tables (comparable with ER 60) (ODS, 1.4 Mb)
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| UKCESS: Scotland |
Scotland 2011 report (PDF, 809 Kb)
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Underlying data tables (comparable with ER 65) (ODS, 1.3 Mb)
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| UKCESS 2011: Technical Resources |
Questionnaire (PDF, 503 Kb)
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Technical Report (PDF, 1.5 Mb)
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| UKCESS 2011: Media |
UK Open Government License (OGL).
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The National Employer Skills Survey for England
The National Employer Skills Survey for England (NESS) was a survey carried out biennially in England by the Learning and Skills Council. In 2009, as part of continuity measures after machinery of government changes, the survey was taken over by the UK Commission. The survey covered many of the measures which have been transferred into the UK-wide survey.
This table has links to the resources for each year NESS was produced
| NESS 2009 |
Key Findings report (PDF, 1.4 Mb) |
Main report (PDF, 4.5 Mb) |
Questionnaire (PDF, 865 Kb) |
Cost of training questionnaire (PDF, 124 Kb) |
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| NESS 2007 |
Key Findings report (PDF, 465 Kb) |
Main report (PDF, 735 Kb) |
Questionnaire (PDF, 735 Kb) |
Cost of training questionnaire (PDF, 122 Kb) |
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| NESS 2005 |
Key Findings report (PDF, 936 Kb) |
Main report (PDF, 3.2 Mb) |
Questionnaire (PDF, 709 Kb) |
Cost of training questionnaire (PDF, 123 Kb) |
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| NESS 2004 |
Key Findings report (PDF, 1.7 Mb) |
Main report (PDF, 3.6 Mb) |
Questionnaire (PDF, 641 Kb) |
n/a |
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| NESS 2003 |
Key Findings report (PDF, 1.2 Mb) |
Main report (PDF, 9.1 Mb) |
Questionnaire (PDF, 551 Kb) |
n/a |
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