2. Using the Diffbot Knowledge Graph*, we identified 2.5 million records
identified as skills within the population of the EU
To break that down, below are the overall EU counts for each category.
Note - one person can have, and account for, multiple skills below:
● Machine Learning 126,258
● Software Development 1,353,852
● Cloud Computing 901,873
● Artificial Intelligence 46,509
● Natural Language Processing 51,254
● Data Science 12,303
* The Diffbot Knowledge Graph is a fully autonomous, AI-curated and structured
database of all of the public knowledge on the Web: more than 1 trillion facts and 10
billion entities. This represents a repository of knowledge that is significantly larger than
the Google Knowledge Graph, and growing every day.
3. Raw Count Ranking in EU: When considering just the raw
count of talent across the EU, the UK is the clear winner, with
France a distant 2nd, and Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands
in a close race for 3rd
Country
1 United Kingdom
2 France
3 Germany
4 Italy
5 Netherlands
6 Spain
7 Sweden
8 Ireland
9 Belgium
10 Poland
4. Country Avg Rank
Luxembourg 2.17
Ireland 2.50
Netherlands 4.00
Malta 4.17
Finland 6.67
Denmark 7.00
Sweden 7.00
Cyprus 7.67
United Kingdom 8.17
Belgium 9.50
Per Capita Average Ranking: Unsurprisingly, the smaller EU
members climb the list when calculating on a per capita
basis...
5. Overall Blended Rank: Once we blend both the “raw count”
and per capita rankings, the Netherlands sits at the top
across all talents surveyed.
1. Netherlands
2. Ireland
3. United Kingdom
4. Sweden
5. Finland
6. France
7. Denmark
8. Belgium
9. Spain
10. Germany
7. Machine Learning: Our blended ranking puts Ireland in the
top Machine Learning spot, while the UK still contains the
largest % of the talent overall
Luxembourg
Ireland
Cyprus
Finland
Malta
Top 5 (per capita)
Top 5 (Overall)
Ireland
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Greece
Sweden
Finland
France
Germany
Belgium
Denmark
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Blended Top 10
8. ML Gender Gap:
Italy boasts the “best” gender split
across the top EU countries (raw
count and per capita), with a
46.06% gap between men and
women with machine learning
skills.
At a split of 85% male / 15% female,
Germany has the worst machine
learning gender gap.
Italy 46.06%
Ireland 57.93%
France 57.98%
United Kingdom 58.74%
Spain 58.90%
Cyprus 62.44%
Finland 62.45%
Malta 65.35%
Luxembourg 67.53%
Germany 69.95%
10. Software Development: Sweden actually comes out on top
when looking at software development skills, with a
continued strong showing from Netherlands and a first Top
10 appearance from Portugal
Ireland
Sweden
Luxembourg
Malta
Finland
Sweden
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Ireland
Finland
Denmark
Belgium
France
Italy
Portugal
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Italy
Germany
Blended Top 10 Top 5 (per capita)
Top 5 (Overall)
11. Software Dev Gender Gap:
Ireland is at the top of the gender
split list in Software Development,
while the Netherlands sits well at
the bottom.
It’s worth noting that, compared to
their Machine Learning split
(65.5%), Malta’s 52.5% gap between
men and women here is improved
Ireland 49.12%
Malta 52.55%
Italy 55.64%
Sweden 56.91%
United Kingdom 57.83%
Finland 65.35%
France 67.46%
Luxembourg 70.58%
Germany 71.45%
Netherlands 73.83%
13. Cloud Computing: The UK placed surprisingly well both in
raw count and their per capita cloud computing skills, while
Belgium also overperformed
Ireland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Malta
Sweden
United Kingdom
Ireland
Netherlands
Sweden
France
Belgium
Finland
Spain
Italy
Denmark
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Germany
Spain
Blended Top 10 Top 5 (per capita)
Top 5 (Overall)
14. Cloud Computing
Gender Gap:
Once again, Ireland and Italy sit
near the top while the Netherlands
still has a very long way to go...
Ireland 49.12%
Germany 55.22%
Italy 55.64%
Sweden 56.91%
United Kingdom 57.83%
Spain 64.12%
Malta 65.39%
France 67.46%
Luxembourg 70.58%
Netherlands 73.83%
16. Artificial Intelligence: The Netherlands takes the top spot in
AI, with a surprisingly strong showing from Greece and
another Portugal appearance
Luxembourg
Malta
Cyprus
Ireland
Netherlands
Top 5 (Overall)
Netherlands
Greece
United Kingdom
France
Ireland
Sweden
Portugal
Spain
Belgium
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Spain
Italy
Blended Top 10 Top 5 (per capita)
17. Artificial Intelligence
Gender Gap:
In a big surprise, Ireland actually comes
in at the very bottom of the gender gap
for Artificial Intelligence (while sitting
at or near the top of every other list).
Italy and Cyprus are also surprises near
the top.
Overall, the lowest point for this gap is
slightly higher than most other
categories (roughly an 83% / 17% M/F
split), while the top numbers are lower,
at a 79% / 21% split.
Italy 56.38%
Cyprus 56.42%
France 63.49%
Spain 63.98%
Germany 64.99%
Netherlands 65.92%
Malta 66.13%
United Kingdom 66.32%
Luxembourg 67.01%
Ireland 67.01%
19. Natural Language Processing: Once again, the Netherlands
and UK have the strongest showings, but NLP is a rare
appearance by Netherlands on the Overall top 5 as well...
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Denmark
Ireland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Denmark
Belgium
Ireland
Sweden
Germany
Finland
France
Spain
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Germany
France
Italy
Blended Top 10 Top 5 (per capita)
Top 5 (Overall)
20. Natural Language
Processing
Gender Gap:
The population with the skill
“natural language processing”
seems dramatically more gender
diverse than any of the other fields
in this report, with some countries
(Netherlands, Denmark, and the
UK) actually showing a significant
lean towards women with the skill.
It’s not immediately clear why this
skill is so differently represented...
Netherlands -20.24%
Denmark -18.09%
United Kingdom -6.88%
Luxembourg 5.05%
Ireland 6.03%
Spain 22.03%
France 26.72%
Italy 28.27%
Germany 33.54%
22. Data Science: Finally, Data Science is the only category
where Germany leads in overall count and bests the UK in
our Blended ranking. Luxembourg, frequently at the top of
“per capita”, also makes its first blended top 10.
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Ireland
Malta
Finland
Top 5 (per capita
Top 5 (Overall)
Netherlands
Germany
United Kingdom
Ireland
Belgium
France
Finland
Denmark
Luxembourg
Sweden
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Spain
Blended Top 10
23. Data Science
Gender Gap:
Despite Germany’s strong showing
in Data Science, they fall at the
bottom of our gender gap ranking,
with 87% male representation and
only 13% female.
The Netherlands once again has
the strongest showing, while
France and Spain continually fall to
the worse end of the scale...
Netherlands 59.74%
United Kingdom 64.49%
Finland 66.02%
Ireland 66.54%
Luxembourg 66.67%
Spain 68.93%
Malta 70.00%
France 70.63%
Germany 72.55%
24. The Diffbot Knowledge Graph is a fully autonomous,
AI-curated and structured database of all of the public
knowledge on the Web: more than 1 trillion facts and 10
billion entities. This represents a repository of knowledge
that is significantly larger than the Google Knowledge
Graph, and growing every day.
To learn more visit www.diffbot.com/knowledge-graph
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