Skills & Employment in the UK

The UK’s wide selection of educational facilities and training programmes means it can satisfy the skills requirement of almost any business.

UK universities are recognised as some of the best in the world offering the expertise needed to keep UK-based businesses at the forefront of global R&D activities.

The UK’s excellent record of attracting major foreign investors from all over the world in numerous business sectors speaks for itself.

Leading-edge international companies that have made substantial investments in the UK to take advantage of the skills base include Microsoft, Oracle, Motorola, Cisco, Toyota, Coca-Cola, Novartis Pharma, Sony, Honda, Caterpillar, Eisai, Ford and Nissan.

Alongside quality the UK offers quantity, boasting a labour force of over 30 million workers–the second largest in the European Union.

Get more information on skills, labour costs and employment law in our overview of the labour environment in the UK.

Read about skills development for R&D businesses.

Read an article looking at how employers are helping to set the UK skills agenda.

Skills & Employment

New companies established in the UK need an affordable, flexible and highly skilled workforce and the UK labour market can deliver it.

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