National Infrastructure Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has published the first update of the UK’s Infrastructure Pipeline, enabling new insights in skills, capacity and productivity for industry and stakeholders across the construction supply chain.  

The updated Pipeline details 734 planned projects covering £718 billion of private and public sector investment over the next decade, a significant increase on the value of projects in the first Pipeline. 

This is the first update since the Pipeline’s launch and includes brand new analysis on workforce and skills demand broken down by region and sector, better aligning infrastructure delivery with the broader goals of the government’s Industrial Strategy and wider skills agenda. 

The published Pipeline now includes an estimate of the future workforce demand needed to deliver planned investment in the UK.  

These new insights will aid the supply chain’s readiness to deliver UK Government infrastructure projects, when they come to market. 

The figures indicate that the pipeline will require an estimated annual average workforce of between 621,000 and 697,000 over the next two years and between 629,000 and 706,000 over the next five years.  

Construction jobs account for over two thirds of this demand, with education and health infrastructure contributing the largest share. 

More information on this announcement is available to read here. 

The UK’s Infrastructure project pipeline is available to read here.   

Further information:  

The Infrastructure Pipeline is the ten-year forward look of investment into major UK capital infrastructure which are under construction, development or at a pre-project stage.  

Managed by the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority, the Pipeline is updated twice a year, with each iteration aiming to add new functionality and data. 

It provides details of capital and maintenance costs for infrastructure and construction projects with a total cost of £25 million or more for economic infrastructure, and £15 million and above for social and other infrastructure projects. 

The Pipeline covers projects and programmes, funds and regulatory settlements led and financed by the public and private sectors, and uses data provided by over 48 providers. The Pipeline only includes projects that have been announced, to ensure the Pipeline remains a credible source of information. 

The new skills modelling was designed and developed by a consortium of skills bodies working with NISTA – including CITB, ECITB, NSAR, Energy and Utility Skills and Cogent Skills - and coordinated and analysed by experts at Whole Life Consultants (WLC).  

It will support wider work assessing the skills requirements and sector skills strategies such as via the Construction Skills Mission Board.