Information about local and national labour markets can help students make informed choices about future study and training. There are likely to be more job opportunities within growth industries.
Information on the local labour market can be found within the Skills & Growth link below:
If students are not sure what they want to do for a career, the Careerometer can help them to explore and compare key information about occupations to support the process of identifying potential careers. It includes a selection of headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment opportunities.
The National Careers Service are dedicated to helping people get the advice they need for future skills, careers, work and life choices. They can help people to develop their career with specially designed tools, or get people on the job ladder. The National Careers Service website enables people to browse profiles of 800 different types of job, or by employment sector, to ascertain the skills and qualifications that are needed; people can also read about what the work would be like, the average salary that can be expected along with career prospects.
Sector Focus
Regional Local Labour Market Information
What is STEM
STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Sometimes this is also known as STEAM which is STEM plus Arts.
EDF Energy commissioned a study by the Social Market Foundation (2016) on, ‘Jobs of the Future’. This revealed that science, research, engineering, and technology jobs will grow at double the rate of other occupations creating 142,000 extra jobs between now and 20231. The study also showed that:
- Computing skills will be the most in demand, with the most job openings and highest number of new jobs (25%)
- Across other industries science, research, engineering and technology jobs are expected to account for 7.8% of all jobs in the UK, equivalent to 2,525, 000 jobs.
STEM Careers Information
Cogent skills – information about the UK science industry, includes careers and qualifications.
CRAC: The Career Development Organisation– provides access to the career experiences of real people through their stories. It includes inspiring examples of STEM careers at a variety of levels, and through the stories describes the pathways of people who used their STEM courses as a springboard into other opportunities.
Maths Careers – The Maths careers site presents opportunities using maths in six main areas – sport, science and engineering, entertainment, business and money, health and society, the environment and a general ‘I love Maths’ section.
National Careers Service – explore careers, science-related careers - biomedical, agricultural, animal science, laboratories, environmental, forensic, and more – find information on STEM careers.
NHS Careers - healthcare careers, including medical, paramedical, scientist, psychological, and more
Routes into engineering careers - and other information
Science and Technology Facilities Council careers – careers and skills needed for the science industries
SEMTA - information on science, engineering and manufacturing sectors, including careers and apprenticeships
STEM & Siemens - manufacturer using electrification, digitalisation and automation
STEM Learning - bursaries and resources
STEMNET – The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network helps schools/colleges to understand the range of STEM Enhancement & Enrichment opportunities available to them.
Tomorrow’s Engineers – A site that provides information about engineering careers, access to teaching resources and links to over 50 other relevant organisations.
WISE – my skills, my life - Women into Science, Technology and Engineering
Women in STEM - women talking about their STEM career
science-engineering.net – This site offers a free University Information Service for science, engineering, and technology.