Building on over a decade of experience in developing and disseminating skills intelligence, we bring together our analytical and research work to provide better and more synthetic evidence on current and future skills and labour market trends. We use narrative-driven visualisations to help policymakers and other skills intelligence users understand what is trending in occupations, sectors, countries, and skills.

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Explore our new landing page for indicators. We have made the page and navigation through the indicators more user friendly and added new content categories by which you may now search. For example, you can look for all the data that we have for occupations or sectors, or you can learn which indicators feed new thematic dashboards, such as on Digitalisation and technology, or Future jobs trends.

Skills intelligence indicators

Browse through our new collection of data insights for occupations! This collection of 33 reports brings together employment and skill demand trends from different strands of Cedefop work, including Skills forecast, European skills and jobs survey and Skills OVATE.

Occupation data insights

Check out our new series of insights on skills anticipation systems in Europe! The series covers 27 EU Member States, Norway and Iceland, and brings details on methods and tools, governance, target groups and other elements of skills anticipation in each country.

Skills anticipation insights

We developed six new thematic dashboards that look at trends in employment and skills from various angles, such as digitalisation and technology, future trends, or job demand in online job postings. Access the new dashboards from the menu above, or the tiles below.

Check the improvements of our data insights page! We have developed sections giving you access to collection of insights on specific topic, such as occupation trends or skills anticipation in countries.

Data insights page

Skills intelligence is a key enabler of decision making on skills and jobs for individuals, organisations, cities, regions, and countries. But what does it take to make skills intelligence relevant and efficient, and how can it best support decision-makers?

This policy brief reviews trends in skills anticipation in Europe and explains how it contributes to more learning and better matching. It builds on Cedefop's monitoring of national skills anticipation systems and practices in the EU-27, Norway and Iceland and input from Cedefop's ReferNet partners.

Skills anticipation policy brief