Skills gap

Platform data, not official statistics. The skills gap compares the skills that the Platform's students list with the skills that the Platform's vacancies ask for. Methodology version — m1.

Supply

• Supply is the skills of students and graduates from the weekly snapshot (see the cohort methodology): moderated skills in the profiles in the last week of the period.
• Students list their skills themselves, so this is a self-report; charts label it "listed by students".
• A group's supply share = students who list at least one skill of the group ÷ students who list at least one moderated skill. A student with two educations in the same breakdown counts once; students who dropped out are not counted.
• The supply region is the region of the student's university; the place of residence is not used.

Demand

• Demand is the skills of the vacancies first published on the Platform in the quarter (see the labour market methodology): a required skill weighs 2, a nice-to-have skill 1.
• A group's demand share — as in the labour market methodology: the vacancies that need a skill of the group (a required one in full, a nice-to-have one half) ÷ the vacancies that list at least one moderated skill. Both shares then answer one question: which part of the students list the group, and which part of the vacancies need it.
• The demand region is the vacancy's region.

Figures

• Gap = demand share − supply share, in percentage points. A positive gap means employers ask for the skill more often than students list it; a negative gap means the opposite.
• Coverage ratio = supply share ÷ demand share. A value below 1 means there are fewer of these skills than needed.
• Breakdowns: region × skill group, field of study × skill group, and for a career center its own students × skill group (all, and verified only). A field of study leads to the vacancy categories the Platform's mapping links to it with a weight of at least 0.5. A career center's demand is that of the categories its fields lead to (fields of at least 10 of its students), in the whole country.

Publication rules

• Both shares pass the suppression rules: at least 10 students and at least 10 vacancies in the breakdown, small groups hidden.
• Demand passes the dominance rule: at least 3 companies, none with more than half of the mentions.
• If either share is hidden, the gap is not shown.

How to read it

• The gap points to where programmes and career support could develop; it is not an exact shortage of specialists.
• Students do not list all their skills, and vacancies do not list every requirement. Compare figures over time and across breakdowns rather than as absolute values.