Regional Skills Assessments
Regional Skills Assessments (RSAs) provide a coherent evidence base to inform future investment in skills, built up from existing datasets and forecasts.
Skills Development Scotland has worked with key partners and stakeholders in the production of RSAs to ensure an inclusive approach to their development, dissemination and utilisation.
RSAs are published annually, covering all Regional Outcome Agreement areas, City and Growth Deal Regions and Rural Scotland. The RSAs offer detailed information on regional labour markets across the country. Oxford Economics forecast data has been updated in this release of the RSAs. The data contained in this release is the most up to date available at the time of writing. A separate technical note is available to provide more information on the main datasets utilised within the RSAs.
The latest iteration of the RSAs includes 23 reports, and summary infographics for each local authority are available through the Data Matrix.
We value user feedback on the Regional Skills Assessments. If you would like to provide feedback on the RSAs please do so here.
The Evidence and Impact team can be contacted at rsa@sds.co.uk to support any queries.
Regional Skills Assessment webinars
To complement the reports, the SDS Evidence and Impact team will be delivering a series of regional webinars in collaboration with SDS Regional Skills Leads. Each one-hour Webinar will include the latest insight from Regional Skills Assessment followed by time for questions from attendees.
Sign up for the free-to-attend webinars:
Catch up with the webinars that have taken place here.
A series of sectoral webinars are also being delivered. Find out more.
RSA Regional Report - Aberdeen City And Shire
PDF 3403Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Ayrshire
PDF 3306Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Borders
PDF 3203Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Dumfries And Galloway
PDF 3335Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Edinburgh, East And Midlothian
PDF 3409Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Fife
PDF 3183Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Forth Valley
PDF 3242KbRSA Regional Report - Glasgow College Region
PDF 3580Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Highlands And Islands
PDF 3402Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Lanarkshire
PDF 3312Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - South Of Scotland
PDF 3322Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - Tayside
PDF 3302Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - West Lothian
PDF 3302Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report - West Region
PDF 3251KbRSA City Region Report - Edinburgh And South East Scotland City Deal
PDF 3440Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA City Region Report - Glasgow City Region
PDF 3384Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA City Region Report - Inverness And Highlands City Deal
PDF 3375Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA City Region Report - Stirling And Clackmannanshire
PDF 3387KbRSA Growth Deal Report - Argyll And Bute
PDF 3305Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Growth Deal Report - Falkirk
PDF 3259Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Growth Deal Report - Islands
PDF 3288Kb 24 October 2023 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Growth Deal Report - Moray
PDF 3261KbData Matrix
The Data Matrix is an interactive tool, which is regularly updated and offers data from a variety of sources in a visually engaging format.
The Data Matrix landing page offers access to the two-page infographics from RSA reports and the full data matrix covering three themes:
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Skills Supply: the supply of people within the labour market
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Skills Demand: the demand for skills within the labour market
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Skills Mismatches: where there is a gap between the demand for skills and the supply of skills within the labour market.
The Data Matrix covers the following geographies:
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Local Authorities
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Regional Outcome Agreement (ROA) areas
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City Deals
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Growth Deals
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Rural Scotland (available through ‘Rural Local Authorities’ button)
The Data Matrix also contains two-page RSA summary infographics.
Guidance on how to use the Data Matrix:
If you have any queries, or comments, please contact rsa@sds.co.uk.