UK Electricians Shortage & High Demand for Skilled Workers

If you are looking to start a new career as an electrician, now is the best time to consider it! The UK is experiencing an unprecedented shortage of electricians and demand for skilled workers is at an all-time high. Newspapers are reporting this current shortage to be the worst since 1997.

The main reasons for the current skills shortage are as follows;

• The UK’s Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener 

Which include the ban on all new diesels and petrol cars by 2030, the Gas Boilers Ban coming in place next year which will see the introduction of Heat Pumps for all new builds and the evolution of greener technology.

• The Scaling EV infrastructure to meet net-zero targets

The increase demand for EV charging point installers means that existing electricians will benefit from up-skilling by completing the EV Charging Point Installer Course. Read more about re-skilling and up-skilling in the electrical industry by reading this blog.

• Increase demand for skilled workers & construction project

Skilled workers are ageing, returning to the EU and/or rethinking after furlough creating a skills vacuum. Demand for general electrical maintenance work is at an all time high. 

Train to become an Electrician with us!

We currently offer 4 key routes to become an electrician to allow everyone to train and up-skill as an electrician in the UK.

• New Entrants – 4 Steps Electrical Training Programme.

This is a self-funded route which includes NVQ and AM2 at the end of the programme.