EU Skills Panorama

The EU Skills Panorama is a website launched in 2012 that presents quantitative and qualitative information on short- and medium-term skills needs, skills supply and skills mismatches in the European Union. The overall aim is to improve Europe’s capacity to assess and anticipate skill needs to help make education and training systems more responsive to labour market needs and to better match skill supply and demand across Europe. It does this by drawing on data and forecasts compiled at EU and Member State level to highlight the fastest growing occupations and the top 'bottleneck' occupations that have high numbers of unfilled vacancies. The website contains information grouped by sector, profession and country to help policymakers and policy experts keep up to date with the latest developments, make comparisons with previous trends, and identify anticipated changes. The panorama is based on clear, reliable, open and relevant quantitative and qualitative information. 

Using the website’s Explore Data tool, users can examine labour market and skills information compiled from various data sources. Options include tracking historical trends, assessing the current situation and forecasting possible future trends. Information can be filtered by classification (country, sector, occupation, and indicator) or by policy thematic area (labour market context, future jobs, people and skills, matching skills and jobs).

Currently, the top five skill shortage occupations across the EU are: ICT professionals; medical doctors; science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals; nurses and midwives, and teachers. However, the picture varies across countries. While, for example, all Member States (except Finland) lack ICT professionals, Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the UK have no shortage of teachers.

Skills Panorama is managed jointly by the European Commission’s  Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).

See also: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training; European Employment Strategy; lifelong learning; traineeship; vocational training.