Information, Advice and Guidance

Construction Skills ConstructionSkills is the Sector Skills Council for construction. We represent every part of the construction industry, from architects to bricklayers, in every part of the UK. And we cover every part of the skills agenda - from grants to college places. We understand what the industry wants and needs; we tell that directly to government, and we have the power to get things done.

Creative & Cultural Skills Creative & Cultural Skills is the Sector Skills Council for advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts.

Skills for Health Skills for Health is the Sector Skills Council for the health sector across the UK.

Financial Services Skills Council Financial Services is the Sector Skills Council for the financial services industry.

Skillfast-UK Skillfast-UK is the Sector Skills Council for fashion and textiles.

Government Skills Government Skills are the Sector Skills Council for central government.

SEMTA Semta is the Sector Skills Council for Science, engineering and manufacturing technologies.

Skills for Justice Skills for Justics is the Sector Skills Council for Policing & Law enforcement, youth justice, custodial care, community justice, courts service, prosecution service and forensic science.

Lantra Lantra is the Sector Skills Council for environment and land-based industries.

e-skills UK e-skills UK are the Sector Skills Council for information technology and telecommunications and the lead body for contact centres on behalf of the Skills for Business Network.

SummitSkills SummitSkills is the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering.

GoSkills GoSkills is the Sector Skills Council for passenger transport.

Lifelong Learning UK Lifelong learning Uk is the Sector Skills Council for community learning and development, further education, higher education, libraries, archives and information services and work-based learning.

Proskills UK Proskills UK is the Sector Skills Council for process and manufacturing in the building products, coatings, glass, printing, extractive and mineral processing industries.

Skillsmart Retail Skillsmart Retail is the Sector Skills Council for retail.

SkillsActive SkillsActive is the Sector Skills Council for sport and recreation, health and fitness, the outdoors, playwork and the caravan industry.

The Institute of the Motor Industry The Institute of the Motor Industry are the Sector Skills Council for the retail motor industry.

Skills for Care and Development Skills for Care and Development , the Sector Skills for social care, children, early years and young people's workforces in the UK.

Skillset Skillset the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for Creative Media is a UK wide industry body which supports skills, training and development for people and businesses to ensure the UK creative media industries maintain their world class position.

Asset Skills Asset Skills is the Sector Skills Council for property, housing, cleaning services and facilities management.

Cogent Cogent is the Sector Skills Council for chemicals and pharmaceuticals, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymers.

Skills for Logistics Skills for Logistics is the Sector Skills Council for freight logistics and wholesaling industry.

People 1st People 1st are the Sector Skills Council for hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries. Springboard CareerScope is recognised by People 1st as being the first choice in Information, Advice and Guidance for the HLTT sector.

Improve Ltd Improve Ltd is the Sector Skills Council for Food and Drink manufacturing and processing.

Energy & Utility Skills Energy & Utility Skills is the Sector Skills Council for electricity, gas, waste management and water industries.

Looking for labour market intelligence on jobs and skills?  You've come to the right place!

Sector Skills Councils are the "voice" of their sector's employers on skills issues.  As part of its work, each SSC produces a wealth of intelligence on jobs, skills and employment trends for their sector - vital information that you can use.

On this site you'll find a separate section for each Sector Skills Council, explaining which area of industry or service they cover, what careers resources they offer, and who to contact.

Construction Skills

ConstructionSkills is a partnership between CITB-ConstructionSkills, the Construction Industry Council (CIC) and CITB Northern Ireland (NI) and as such covers the whole industry from craft to the professions, the whole of the UK, and all of the issues that the industry faces....