The NTO is committed to collecting and analysing data at a national and international level in order to build a clearer picture of current and future trends for the IT industry, IT professionals across sectors and IT users.

This Labour Market Intelligence is invaluable to the NTO, the industry, businesses across sectors and the UK workforce as a whole as it helps to identify and address key training and development issues and therefore provides the foundation for plans to develop a world-class IT workforce in the UK.

Current Research Projects
Our current research projects are:

• ICT (Information Communications Technology) LMI
• Sourcing the Future IT Service Skills Needs in the East of England
• Skills Foresight

For an overview, please check our Research Projects page available under the Projects section.

Research Project Publications
For copies of the following reports, please contact Sarah Steele on or write to .

• Labour Market Intelligence in the IT Services Industry 2000 – England: July 2000
• Labour Market Intelligence in the IT Services Industry 2000 – Scotland: July 2000
• Labour Market Intelligence in the IT Services Industry 2000 – Wales: July 2000
• Labour Market Intelligence in the IT Services Industry – South East of England Region: May 2000
  
  
• Regional reports also available for:
  • East of England
  • West Midlands
  • East Midlands
  • South West of England
  • North West of England
  • North East of England
  • London Region
  • Yorkshire & Humberside
    
    
• Have you got what IT takes? – A guide to skills for making it in the IT Services Industry. May 2000
  
  
• ‘ Project Gemini ’: Improving the availability of graduates to the IT Services Industry. May 2000
  
  
• Skills Foresight - Setting the Skills Agenda for the IT Services Industry. March 2000
  
  
• The People Skills Scoreboard – Training Investment of IT Services Companies. March 2000
  
  
• University-Industry Interface (AISS). January 2000
  
  
• Skills 99: IT Skills Summary (AISS) 1999
  
  
• A Skills Framework for the IT Services Sector . July ’99
  
  
• International Skills Benchmarking Study in IT Services. March ’99
  
  
• Labour Market Information IT Services - England: Skills Shortages & Requirements. March '99
• Labour Market Information IT Services - Scotland: Skills Shortages & Requirements. March '99
• Labour Market Information IT Services - Wales: Skills Shortages & Requirements. March '99
  
  
• Labour Market Information - Phase 1 Study, Sector Profile. Oct'98

For links to other websites with LMI on the IT workforce, please go to Useful Links .