UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey 2011: Scotland results
This report presents results for Scotland from the UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey 2011; these are reported on a consistent basis with legacy employer skills surveys in Scotland. We have previously published a report for the entire UK. The survey looks at training and staff development, vacancies unfilled because of skills shortages and gaps in employees’ skills; it provides a picture of skills needs and training investment of Scotland’s employers.
Evidence Report : UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey 2011- Scotland Results (PDF, 809 Kb)
Executive Summary (PDF, 363 Kb)
Published December 2012
This report looks at results of the UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey for Scotland.
In Scotland, 2,500 employers were interviewed on a wide range of issues including investment in training and staff development, vacancies and skills shortages, and gaps in employees’ skills.
Findings from the report show that:
- 13 per cent of establishments had vacancies (a total of 45,800 vacancies)
- 4% had a vacancy they considered to be ‘hard-to-fill’; (22 per cent of all vacancies)
- 3% of establishments had a skill-shortage vacancy
- 7% reported at least one of their staff was not fully proficient, that is, they have a “skills gap”
- 122,400 employees, five per cent of the workforce as a whole, have a skills gap
- 71% of employers had provided either on-or off-the-job training to at least one member of staff in the 12 months preceding the survey
- 1.4 million staff, or 61 per cent of the workforce, had received some training in the 12 months preceding the survey.
