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SkillsCompass
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SkillsCompass shows how demand for different skills is changing across England. It identifies which occupational standards and related skills statements are becoming more important, and which are declining.

The service compares Skills England occupational standards, online job adverts, and Future Occupational Profiles to surface changes in demand over time.

SkillsCompass is provided by Skills England, a body that brings together key partners to meet the skills needs of the next decade and support major reforms in England's economy and workforce.

Alpha service limitations

  • SkillsCompass uses online job advert data provided by Textkernel. The quality of this data can change each month.
  • Job advert coverage can vary month to month. Missing sources can make some comparisons less reliable.
  • Location and SOC occupation coding in job adverts can contain errors in the data source.
  • SkillsCompass only shows occupational standards that have been approved.
  • Future Occupational Profiles are exploratory and should be interpreted alongside other trusted evidence.
  • More details are available in the data sources page.
  • AI tools can make mistakes. Users should check results against other sources and expert advice.

Explore SkillsCompass data.

List of standards

Explore occupational standards ranked in order of job advert matches.

Go to list of standards
Occupational Insights

Explore highlight information at route, pathway, cluster or occupation level.

Go to occupational insights

How to use SkillsCompass

Use the navigation bar above to get to the starting view you want.

List of occupational standards

This presents occupational standards ranked in order of job advert matches over three years. This data is updated monthly.

Users can filter by Occupational Maps (route, pathway or cluster) or Standard Occupational classification (SOC). Users can also search for a specific occupational standard more quickly.

Location and sector filters can be used to present a list of occupations in rank order of matches in regional areas. The sector filter can be used to present a list of occupations in rank order of job advert matches in standard industry classification (SIC) industries.

Adjusting matching sensitivities changes the volume of displayed matches.

Occupational insights

This presents one-year or three-year insight trends for route, pathway, cluster, occupation, or SOC classifications.

Users can see totals for job advert matches, skills matches, new skills matches and FOPs. A choropleth map shows job advert distribution by local area and further cards show highest demand, fastest growth and fastest decline.

Users can filter by location and industry classification. This data is updated monthly. Adjusting matching sensitivities changes the volume of displayed matches.

For value context, users can see actual and projected workforce size and shape.

List of occupational standard knowledge, skills, behaviours and duties (KSBDs)

This presents occupational standard KSBD statements ranked in order of job advert matches over three years.

Users can filter by OMaps route, pathway or cluster, and by SOC. Users can use the search bar to find a specific KSBD statement more quickly.

The status and statement type filters can be used to present a list of type of skill statement and if they are an existing statement or potential new statement from job adverts.

Adjusting matching sensitivities changes the volume of matches displayed.

The (i) symbol next to subtitles provides information on the data shown in each section.

For all views, users can save the data using a URL link or CSV file download.

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