Research

IT Insights

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The complete list of publications is as follows:
IT Insights: Trends and UK Skills Implications
IT Insights: Employer Skills Needs
IT Insights: Employment Forecasts
IT Insights: Drivers for Skills Demand
IT Insights: Assessment of Current Provision
IT Insights: Regional Skills Gap Analysis (one per region)
IT Insights: Skills Gap Analysis - Scotland
IT Insights: Skills Gap Analysis - Wales
IT Insights: Skills Gap Analysis - Northern Ireland

IT Insights: Trends and UK Skills Implications
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request your free copy at www.e-skills.com/register) rrp £425
e-skills UK/Gartner Consulting, November 2004
A vision of the future based on the predictions of leading global industry analysts and input from in depth interviews with influential business leaders

IT Insights: Employer Skills Needs
(Click here for free PDF - 4.9MB) rrp £135
e-skills UK/Experian Business Strategies, November 2004
A survey of 3,240 employers covering current skills needs during June 2004. The survey is GB based with results available for Scotland, Wales and English regions. The survey covers IT professionals (within IT companies and across all other sectors) and IT users. It uses the employer-defined skills frameworks for IT professional skills and IT user skills to identify skills requirements.

IT Insights: Employment Forecasts
(Click here for free PDF - 3.5MB) rrp £135
e-skills UK/Experian Business Strategies, November 2004
Detailed econometric forecasts for future employment in the IT industry and in IT occupations to 2014. The report also provides an analysis of the demand for IT skills in the short term (2003-2006) via Experian’s IT Skills Demand Model using base data from the National Employers Skills Survey 2003. These forecasts cover Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and nine English regions.

IT Insights: Drivers for Skills Demand
(Click here for free PDF - 2.6MB) rrp £135
e-skills UK/MRM Solutions, November 2004
A report setting out the background, profile and characteristics of the IT industry, the IT professional workforce and users of IT in general. It investigates the current and changing environment for IT and in particular identifies future drivers of change. The report sets out the competitive position of the sector and the UK’s recent performance within a global marketplace.

IT Insights: Assessment of Current Provision
(Click here for free PDF - 2.1MB) rrp £135
e-skills UK
This report sets out to assess the extent of current workforce development activity in IT. It examines the range, nature and employer relevance of current public and private training provision, including secondary, Further and Higher Education in England, and reviews current expenditure on all workforce development activities.

NEW! - IT Insights: Regional Skills Gap Analysis
e-skills UK - April 2005
A set of 9 reports for the English regions, bringing together the employer skills needs, employment forecasts and the supply side provision. Download free copies below.

• IT Insights - East Midlands (PDF - 874KB)
• IT Insights - East of England (PDF - 877KB)
• IT Insights - London (PDF - 870KB)
• IT Insights - North East (PDF - 868KB)
• IT Insights - North West (PDF - 873KB)
• IT Insights - South East (PDF - 870KB)
• IT Insights - South West (PDF - 867KB)
• IT Insights - West Midlands (PDF - 866KB)
• IT Insights - Yorkshire & Humberside (PDF - 888KB)

IT Insights: Skills Gap Analysis - Scotland
(Click here for free PDF - 907KB)
e-skills UK, April 2005
This report for Scotland brings together research from the IT Insights suite of publications with additional research on supply side provision.

IT Insights: Skills Gap Analysis - Wales
(Click here for free PDF - 860KB)
e-skills UK, April 2005
This report for Wales brings together research from the IT Insights suite of publications with additional research on supply side provision.

NEW! - IT Insights: Skills Gap Analysis - Northern Ireland
(Click here for free PDF - 1.1MB)
e-skills UK, August 2005
This report brings together primary research in Northern Ireland from an employer survey, face to face employer interviews and contributions from a conference of employers and stakeholders. It also contains commentary, foresight and forecasting data from the IT Insights suite of publications including an analysis of IT education and training provision.

Last modified: 28 Jan 2008