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<p>ONS vacancies data[1] shows that there were 122,000 vacancies in the professional,
scientific and technical activities sector, which includes accounting, architecture
and quantity surveying, in the three months to December 2022. The sector currently
has a vacancy rate of 4.5%. The number of vacancies in the sector has fallen 6.2%
compared with the first quarter of 2022 but remain at relatively high levels and are
58% higher than in the final quarter of 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is investing
an additional £3.8 billion into skills and further education over this Parliament
to ensure workers develop the skills businesses need. More specifically, the Department
for Education set a strategy for skills reform which puts employers at the heart of
skills training and education in the Skills for Job white paper. The Government help
to articulate what employers need from the skills system through our sector teams’
engagement and sharing workforce data and intelligence with DfE’s Unit for Future
Skills.</p><p> </p><p><em>[1]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/datasets/vacanciesbyindustryvacs02"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/datasets/vacanciesbyindustryvacs02</a></em></p>
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