Building standards - workforce data collection: analysis report 2021
The report provides a national-level view of the challenges facing the building standards profession in relation to resourcing, development of competencies and levels of turnover.
7.0 Supply and Demand – current, medium, long and longer term
7.1. The 2021 data collection introduced a new category for longer-term demand for job roles over the next ten years. This category provides a clearer indication of whether or not the resourcing gap is being closed.
7.2. The demand against supply is increasing by around 20% over the next 3 years.
7.3. The supply for Surveyors indicates a shortfall in resourcing. There are 203 fulfilling this role which is 21 less than the reported demand level.
7.4. Critically the largest demand will be over the next 3-5 years. There are currently 63 (569 to 632) more job roles needed in 2021. This increases by 22 to 85 in 3 years (681 to 689), and by 5 to 90 (689 to 694) in 5 years. In the longer term this shows that over the next 10 years the demand will be continue with a projected 62 job roles needed. See Table 3.
| Demand (2021 Return) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Supply 2021 | Current 2021 (+/-) | Medium 2024 (change from 2021) (+/-) | Long 2026 (change from 2024) (+/-) | Longer 2031 (change from 2026) (+/-) | Demand between 2021 – 2031 (+/-) |
| Manager | 28 | 28 (0) | 28 (0) | 28 (0) | 28 (0) | 0 |
| Team Leader | 43 | 43 (0) | 44 (+1) | 44 (0) | 45 (+1) | +2 |
| Lead Surveyor | 19 | 22 (+3) | 26 (+4) | 26 (0) | 26 (0) | +4 |
| Senior Surveyor | 49 | 51 (+2) | 54 (+3) | 57 (+3) | 57 (0) | +6 |
| Surveyor | 203 | 224 (+21) | 233 (+9) | 234 (+1) | 236 (+2) | +12 |
| Assistant Surveyor | 40 | 49 (+9) | 54 (+5) | 54 (0) | 52 (-2) | +3 |
| Graduate Surveyor | 15 | 19 (+4) | 30 (+11) | 29 (-1) | 33 (+4) | +14 |
| Building Inspector | 32 | 41 (+9) | 50 (+9) | 52 (+2) | 52 (0) | +11 |
| Technician | 16 | 21 (+5) | 26 (+5) | 26 (0) | 26 (0) | +5 |
| Administrator (dedicated resource) | 38 | 43 (+5) | 42 (-1) | 43 (+1) | 43 (0) | 0 |
| Administrator (pooled resource) | 69 | 67 (-2) | 67 (0) | 65 (-2) | 65 (0) | -2 |
| Other Specialist (structure, fire, etc) | 7 | 13 (+6) | 14 (+1) | 16 (+2) | 16 (0) | +3 |
| Other Role | 10 | 11 (+1) | 13 (+2) | 15 (+2) | 15 (0) | +4 |
| Total | 569 | 632 (+63) | 681 (+49) | 689 (+8) | 694 (+5) | +62 |
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