15 Million UK Workers Locked Out of Data Skills Training

Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec09 Jul 2026|Statistics15 Million UK Workers Locked Out of Data Skills TrainingNew analysis reveals that millions of UK employees want to improve their data skills but are being denied the opportunity to do so.The research, conducted by RRC International, found that nine in ten workers (30.9 million) want to improve their data skills, yet almost half of employees in the UK are given little to no dedicated time during the working day to develop them. The result is a