Among those with advanced skills, 44% say digital skills training has made them more efficient in their work, 50% believe it has improved their opportunities to be promoted, and 42% received an increase in salary.Īmong the 33% of UK workers who completed digital skills training in the past year, 99% say their career has experienced at least one positive benefit as a result.

More than half (58%) of workers with advanced digital skills expressed high job satisfaction, compared to 43% of workers with basic or intermediate digital skills.

The findings show that digitally skilled workers are not only better paid, they are also happier in their jobs, more efficient, and believe they have a better chance of promotion. Digital skills mastery is linked to significant gains in employee job satisfaction. The research also revealed that employees in the UK have a lot to gain from building and advancing their digital skills. Digitally skilled workers in the UK have higher job satisfaction and productivity Meanwhile, jobs vacancies in the UK that require 10 or more digital skills pay 48% higher salaries than those requiring no digital skills. This translates into individual gains in the region of £11,568 annually. UK workers with advanced digital skills (such as cloud architecture, software development and machine learning) earn 30% more than those with no digital skills. UK organisations that run most of their business on the cloud are 55% more likely to have introduced a new product in the last two years and 45% more likely to have experienced steady or higher revenue growth compared to those that do not run most of their business on the cloud. The research shows that organisations that integrate advanced digital skills, digital technologies, and cloud technology realise rates of revenue growth and innovation that are notably higher than those that do not. Digital skills investment delivers dividends The research, which is part of Amazon’s ongoing commitment to provide free cloud computing skills training to 29 million people by 2025, offers four key insights. In addition, to assess the skills most needed by today’s employers, Gallup analysed Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass) data on all advertised job vacancies in 33 countries from mid-2021 to mid-2022. Gallup and AWS collaborated to conduct one of the largest international surveys of its type, polling more than 30,000 workers and 9,300 hiring managers in 19 countries, including the UK.

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