In our previous Shedding Light on the Labour Market, we looked at the Green Economy, identifying a total of 366 relevant job titles in our Job Posting Analytics data, and seeing how demand has been changing at the national and Government Office Region level. In this piece, we want to delve a little deeper, […]
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Emsi and Burning Glass Merge to Form a New Powerhouse Labour Market Data Company
Emsi has merged with Burning Glass Technologies to form a new powerhouse labour market data company that will offer an even greater array of resources for clients of both companies. The combined company will be called Emsi Burning Glass, with the CEO of Burning Glass, Matt Sigelman taking the helm of the new company, and […]
New Report: City & Guilds Skills Index 2021
Our ongoing collaboration with City & Guilds has continued with the release of an extremely timely report — Skills Index 2021. The report, which includes a survey of over 1,000 employers collected by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), explores which skills have seen growth over the past year, and which skills are emerging […]
Free Report: Level 3 Learner Achievements and Skills Demand in Your LEP Region
We will shortly be incorporating Department for Education data on Further Education and Skills into our Analyst and FE Analyst tools (more details coming soon). In anticipation of this we have created a series of short reports for each of the 38 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) regions, which uses this data to look at Level […]
A Brief Look at Employer Demand for Jobs and Skills in “The Green Economy”
Although there has been much talk about the Green Economy in recent years, and particularly in the last year or so, there has been surprisingly little discussed about what this means in terms of the labour market. Whereas we might tend to assume that the Green Economy is all about businesses and jobs that […]
Tracking the Demand for Graduate Level Jobs and Skills During the Covid-19 Period
This article was written for Careermag for Graduates — the magazine aimed at providing graduates with the information they need to help them make well-informed decisions on their career. It comes as no surprise that employer hiring activity fell by an unprecedented amount during the first Lockdown. Thousands of businesses closed and were then […]
The Importance of Identifying Labour Market Demand at the Local Level
In today’s Shedding Light on the Labour Market, we want to focus on the importance of understanding how local labour markets are often vastly different from one another, even with those that are in close proximity, and therefore why it is vital for those making decisions relating to their labour market to identify demand […]
