Heating training provider JTL has voiced concern that a staggering 1.25 million extra construction trades workers and over 300,000 qualified trades apprentices are needed by 2030, as revealed by the UK Domestic Trade Skills Index.
The ‘UK Domestic Trade Skills Index’ is a new quarterly report from Homeserve Foundation, which provides comprehensive insights and analysis into the state of the nation’s trades skills.
JTL’s chief executive, Jon Graham, said in addition to the above statistics "the report identifies that one fifth of construction trade workers aged 55 or over will retire before 2030, whilst the number of EU workers who left in 2020 (20,000+) is likely to drop by an extra 22% by 2030...