Engineering services firms continue to struggle with labour shortage

The latest quarterly survey of the UK engineering services sector, backed by leading trade bodies ECA, BESA, SELECT and SNIPEF, reveals that electrotechnical businesses continue to be held back by slow growth, partly blamed on a shortage of adequately skilled workers. The survey paints a picture of an overriding issue which has been of consistent concern for the last four quarters.
Half of all survey respondents (48%) said they currently have vacancies in their organisations. Half of these (50%)