Construction: Skilled Workers
(asked on 24th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of skilled workers in the construction industry.
This question was answered on 29th April 2019
The following table provides information about skills levels in the construction workforce in 2018.
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Skill level | Number | Percentage |
High | 532,100 | 23% |
Upper Middle | 1,216,600 | 53% |
Lower Middle | 373,800 | 16% |
Low | 176,500 | 8% |
Total | 2,299,000 | 100% |
Data source: Annual Population Survey Jan-Dec 2018, extracted from NOMIS