Policy paper

Quantifying the UK Data Skills Gap

This report seeks to assess the supply of data skills in relation to fast increasing demand in the UK.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Published: 18 May 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Quantifying the UK Data Skill Gap - Summary version

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Quantifying the UK Data Skills Gap - Full report

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Details

Data is now the driving force of the world’s modern economies. It fuels innovation and drives business productivity. Data-literate individuals are more likely to benefit from and contribute to the increasingly data-rich environments they live and work in. However, without data skills, the opportunities data provides will not be realised.

DCMS commissioned Opinium to undertake research to define the data skills ‘gap’ in order to be able to measure it and explore the regional and sectoral disparity in the data skills gap.

Published 18 May 2021