1. The Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology
SFIA Conference Presentation
2nd December 2009
Niall Daly
e-skills UK
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2. The Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology
What is the market
background for the National
Skills A d
Skill Academy? ?
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3. IT Professional workforce
dynamics
• Th workforce has grown and is forecast to
The kf h di f tt
continue to grow
– 1 1 ili people
1.1.milion l
• 43% are in the IT Industry vertical
• 57% a e IT Professional in ot e industries
5 % are o ess o a other dust es
– Around 141,000 people enter the workforce each year
• There has been a shift to higher level skilled
g
roles over the last 8 years . This trend will
continue...
– Software professional and managerial roles will be
73% of workforce by 2016
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4. Employer training behavior-
propensity to train
Micro businesses
Small companies
Mid-sized companies
Large companies
g p
Sector average
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
%
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5. Employer training behavior-
Training spend
Interpersonal
training
Business training
Technical training
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
% of spend
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6. Employer training behaviour ( )
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• Majority of the training is with private
training p
g providers
– 83% of companies training staff for vendor
based use private providers
• Main employer concerns about training
are..
– Time away from the business
– Total cost of training
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7. Training p
g provider market
• P i t t i i provider market i worth £450
Private training id k t is th £450m
per annum
– £350 of thi h b
£350m f this has been i t t l d t i i
instructor led training
– £100m on e-learning
– Only 17% of vendor training uses public providers
• Training market is highly concentrated with a few
major players
– Top 20 providers have nearly 80% of the market (by
turnover)
)
• However the market has shown a significant
decline in revenues since late 2008
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8. Skills in demand
• Key areas of skills demand, which are currently
well served
– Project Management
– Generic technical training
– Service management
• Strategically important/emerging skills demand,
g y p g g ,
which currently not well served
– Solutions architecture
– Information Management
– Business change
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9. Certifications continue
to be in demand
• Most popular qualifications
– Microsoft
– PRINCE2
– ISEB
– ITIL
– CISCO
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10. The opportunity is for the
Academy to
to...
• Improve return on investment
• Eliminate chaos
• Recognise competence
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11. Whose has been involved?
• IT Industry
I d t
• CIOs
• SMEs
• Providers
– Private
– Public
• Partners
– Content providers
– Qualification owners
• Government
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12. What will the Academy
offer?
• The purpose of the Academy
– Employer led
p y
– Not for profit
– Enable professional recognition and
progression for the IT workforce
– M k it easy t fi d 'b t fit, best quality, b t
Make to find 'best fit b t lit best
value' learning and qualifications
– Create new cost effective learning
opportunities
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13. The Academy model
y
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14. Who will
benefit?
• IT Professionals through...
P f i l th h
– Industry recognition for their skills
– Id tifi ti of most relevant training
Identification f t l tt i i
• Employers through...
–RRecognition of skills
iti f kill
– Identify the most appropriate training
– Improved Return on Investment
• Providers through...
–IImproved market positioning
d k t iti i
– Access to new resources
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15. The Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology
Case Study - e-skills
professional p g
p programme
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16. What is the e-skills
professional programme
• Designed by employers in collaboration
with universities
• Flexible, fast track and modular
development programme
programme.
• Offers nationally-recognised, high quality
development to new IT recruits.
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17. What does the
programme cover
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18. The Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology
Where can I learn more?
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19. National Skills Academy
for IT
• For further information and updates please
register a www.e-skills.com
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20. e-skills professional p g
p programme
• Contact
– Helen Porter
• helen.porter@e-skills.com
• www.e-skills.com/professionalprogramme
www.e skills.com/professionalprogramme
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