• SMIFutures: UK Maritime Skills & Future Workforce Survey

  • The UK maritime sector is undergoing significant change, driven by advances in autonomy, artificial intelligence, digitalisation, decarbonisation and evolving customer requirements.

    SMIFutures is seeking views from organisations across the wider maritime industry to build a clearer picture of current skills shortages and future workforce needs. The findings will help inform engagement with industry, education providers and policymakers, and support future careers and workforce activity.

    Estimated completion time: approximately 10 minutes.

  • 1. Organisation Profile

    This information will help us understand whether skills needs vary across different parts and sizes of the maritime sector.
  • 1. Which part(s) of the maritime sector does your organisation operate in?  Select all that apply.
  • 2. Approximately how many people does your organisation employ?
  • 3. Where is your organisation primarily based?

  • 2. Current Workforce Challenges

    Tell us about the workforce and recruitment pressures affecting your organisation today.
  • 4. What are the biggest workforce challenges currently facing your organisation? Select up to three.*
  • 6. Which technical skills are currently in shortest supply? Select up to five.*
  • 7. Which transferable or business skills are currently in shortest supply? Select up to three.*
  • 8. What impact are workforce or skills gaps having on your organisation? Select all that apply.*

  • 3  Future workforce requirements

    Looking ahead, tell us where you expect demand for people and skills to change.
  • 9. How do you expect your organisation’s workforce requirements to change over the next five years?*
  • 11. Which skills do you expect to become most important over the next decade? Select up to five.*

  • 4  Education, training and career pathways

    Help us understand how well current routes into the sector meet industry need.
  • 13. How well do current education and training pathways meet your organisation’sworkforce needs?*
  • 14. Where do you believe the biggest gaps exist? Select up to three.*
  • 16. Which routes should receive greater emphasis to meet future workforce needs?  Select up to three.*

  • 5  Sector priorities and next steps

    Your final reflections will help identify practical priorities for industry, educators and policymakers.
  • 18. Would your organisation be willing to support future maritime skills activity? Select all that apply.*

  • Thank you very much for your time.

    If you would like to be kept up to date with SMIFutures activities and events or to be contacted for follow up please provide you name and email address below. By doing so you agree to be contacted by the SMIFutures Board.

  • To find out more about SMIFutures, please visit our website or send us an email.  

  • Privacy Notice
    The Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) and SMIFutures are collecting this information to better understand current and future workforce and skills requirements across the UK maritime sector.

    Participation in this survey is voluntary.

    Responses will be analysed and reported at an aggregated level. Individual responses will not be attributed to an organisation or individual without their prior permission.

    Survey data will be held securely by SMI and accessed only by those involved in the management and analysis of the survey.

    By submitting this survey, you consent to SMI processing the information provided for the purposes outlined above.

    For questions about this survey or how your data will be used, please email info@maritimeindustries.org. 

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