new economy manchester on using labour/insight
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Labour/Insight User Group: New Economy Case Study
Richard Cook and Emanuela Orsolic
17 November 2015
About New Economy“Growth and prosperity for Greater Manchester”
Policy•Europe & international•Skills & employment•Planning, housing & environment
Strategy•Research•Cost benefit analysis & evaluation•Public service reform
Greater Manchester Growth Company
Local Enterprise Partnership
Business Leadership
Council
Senior Private Sector Groups
GM Combined Authority
AGMA Executive
Board
Senior Elected Member Groups
Greater Manchester’s Governance
Wider Leadership TeamChief Executives / Officers of 10 Local Authorities, New
Economy, Health, Police, Fire and Rescue
New Economy Marketing Manchester MIDAS
Examples of our Research
New Economy & Labour/Insight
What do we use the tool for?
Manchester Monitor
GM Skills Analysis• Policy context
• Labour market context
• Employer demand
• Skills supply: young people
• Skills supply: adults
• Travel to learn, Work Programme, apprenticeship vacancies
Admin, IT and health roles top job vacancy listings
Top Job Vacancies in GM by detailed occupation, Q3 (July-September 2014)
• Matching real-world occupations to statistical categories always presents a technical challenge. Labour Insight identifies administrative roles as being most in demand between July and September 2014. These are followed by programmers and software developers and nurses.
• Roles in IT, sales and customer service, business service roles (such as marketing and HR), and – interestingly – in the public services (e.g. nursing, teachers and teaching assistants) are prominent in the list.
Mathematics is the specialist skill that employers value most
Top specialist skills in job requirements, Greater Manchester, Q3 (July-Sept 2014)
• As well as maths, the chart suggests specific IT related skills are highly sought after by employers.
• However, this could be because these specific skills are the ones that are named most frequently in job adverts and therefore picked up by Labour Insight. Other types of job advert may not specify skills in the same manner as IT related roles.
Case Study: Digital Sector in GM
The ChallengeReal time information on employer demand in GM’s digital sector – occupations and skills in demand by employers – to inform a report on digital skills in GM
Why look at the digital sector?•One of the fastest growing sectors in terms of employment and gross value added (GVA) in GM•Strong growth is forecast for employment and GVA in the sector•Important to align the supply of skills with the needs of digital employers
Labour/Insight Analysis
• Top vacancies by detailed occupation in GM• Skills clusters in GM• Specialist skills in greatest demand in GM• Specialist skills in greatest demand for top Digital
occupations
Top vacancies by detailed occupation in GM Jan. 01, 2015 - Sep. 30, 2015
Top skills clusters (excluding Common Skills) in GM Jan. 01, 2015 - Sep. 14, 2015
Specialist skills in greatest demand in GM Jan. 01, 2015 - Sep. 14, 2015
Specialist skills in greatest demand for Digital occupations in GM Jan. 01, 2015 - Sep. 14, 2015
Programmers and software development professionals
•Microsoft C#•SQL•.NET Programming•JavaScript•C++
Web design and
development professionals
•JavaScript•.NET Programming•Web site development•Microsoft C#•jQuery
IT business analysts,
architects and systems
designers
•SQL•Citrix•SQL Server•IT Industry Experience•SAP
