In October 2022, IER and Cambridge Econometrics produced new UK labour market and occupational projections to 2035 as part of the Skills Imperative 2035 Programme, a five-year research programme funded by the Nuffield Foundation and led by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) (see earlier IER news item).

National, regional and sub-regional level labour market and skills projections to 2035 have now been published as part of the Skills Imperative 2035 Programme with additional funding from the Department for Education (DfE) for the sub-regional analysis.

These projections cover:

• the UK nations - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland – plus data for the whole of the UK

• English regions

• Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas

• Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) areas and

• Mayoral Combined Authorities (MCA) in England.

The projections, disaggregated by occupation industry and employment status, as well as by broad level of qualification, are available as Excel worksheets via the DfE website, together with general guidelines and a workbook user guide.

These projections update those produced as part of the Working Futures series.

Both the UK and the national, regional and sub-regional projections have been undertaken by IER and Cambridge Econometrics, led by IER's Professor Rob Wilson. The team includes Shyamoli Patel, Ha Bui, Xinru Lin, Daniel Seymour and Chris Thoung from Cambridge Econometrics and Rob Wilson, Derek Bosworth, Luke Bosworth, Jeisson Cardenas-Rubio and Rosie Day from the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick.