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• Employers in the GCGP region report having a similar share of vacancies and hard-to-fill vacancies as in the rest of England.
• Life Sciences in Cambridge experience a higher rate of vacancies and shortages of skills than other parts of England.
• The share of available vacancies and the hard-to-fill vacancies for professionals in the Cambridge region is much higher than nationally.
• The skills gaps and hard-to-fill vacancies have greater impact on employers in the GCGP region than in the rest of England, in particular in the Life Sciences and Construction sectors.

The Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough (GCGP) region is a highly prosperous area, with prodigious job growth. Assessing and understanding the skills demand of the present and future local labour market is therefore of great importance to inform policy discussions about skills development at the local level.

This report, commissioned by Cambridge Ahead and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, uses the Employer Skills 2015 survey carried out by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills to assess the skills demand from the perspective of businesses. Analyses are conducted for four industry sectors that were considered particularly relevant for the local labour market in the region, namely Life Sciences, Information and Communications, Health and Social Work and Construction.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Research findings

• Chapter Three

  Conclusions and recommendations

• Annex A

  Definitions used in this report

• Annex B

  Supplementary Data