Skills Intelligence Report 2025
The AI skills frontier is here. Discover the most in-demand AI and data skills from 14,500 workers across 16 industries.
Our workforce needs new skills to innovate with AI.
Soon, prompt engineering skills won't be enough. To seize AI's growth potential, we need to empower our workforce to think bigger. In 2025, workers will need to blend creativity, problem-solving, and systems thinking to drive AI innovation and bring ideas to life.
38%
Predicted efficiency gains from AI, if employees equipped with the right skills.
Only 6%
of employees are actively exploring how AI can improve work processes.
41%
of workers lack the skills to identify where AI could add value in their role.
We need to fix our data skills foundation.
Without addressing chronic data skills shortages, organisations risk damaging productivity and falling behind in the race to scale AI.
13.8%
The amount of the working week employees spend on data tasks.
27 days
Estimated productive time lost to data skills gaps every year, per employee.
£61.94 billion
Estimated losses to the UK economy each year, caused by data skills gaps.
Workers are ready, willing, and waiting to learn
Training will be essential for people to succeed, as AI reshapes the working world. Nine in 10 employees said they wanted to improve their AI skills (91%) and 89% want to upskill in data. In our 2025 Skills Intelligence Report, we explore how employers can capture this energy - and drive forward real AI innovation.