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.
Webinars
Between November 2023 and January 2024, the Evidence and Impact team held a series of sectoral and regional webinars to complement the publication of the Regional and Sectoral Skills Assessments. The recordings of the webinars can be found on the SDS YouTube Channel here.
A series of sectoral webinars have also been delivered. Find out more.
RSA Regional Report Aberdeen City And Shire
PDF 3404Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report Ayrshire
PDF 3307Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report Borders
PDF 3205Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report Dumfries And Galloway
PDF 3335Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report Edinburgh, East And Midlothian
PDF 3410Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report Fife
PDF 3185Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report Forth Valley
PDF 3243KbRSA Regional Report Glasgow College Region
PDF 3583Kb Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report Highlands And Islands
PDF 3404Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report Lanarkshire
PDF 3312Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report South Of Scotland
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PDF 3303Kb Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report West Lothian
PDF 3305Kb Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA Regional Report West Region
PDF 3252KbRSA City Region Report Edinburgh And South East Scotland City Deal
PDF 3442Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA City Region Report Glasgow City Region
PDF 3385Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA City Region Report Inverness And Highlands City Deal
PDF 3377Kb 20 February 2024 Regional Skills AssessmentsRSA City Region Report Stirling And Clackmannanshire
PDF 3389KbRSA Growth Deal Report Argyll And Bute
PDF 3308Kb 20 February 2024 RSA - Growth Deal Summary ReportRSA Growth Deal Report Falkirk
PDF 3261Kb 20 February 2024 Growth Deal Summary ReportRSA Growth Deal Report Islands
PDF 3291Kb 20 February 2024 Growth Deal Summary ReportRSA Growth Deal Report Moray
PDF 3263KbData 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.