Methodology
How this data is built
Everything public on Zavmo comes from a careers graph with named sources, labels that say what is measured and what is inferred, and human gates. This page is the whole method, short enough to actually read.
The sources
- Regulated qualifications come from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0, including awarding body, regulated framework (RQF) level, guided learning hours, credits, registry identifiers, and the learning outcomes of each unit. See the qualifications we hold, or the awarding bodies behind them.
- Skills are the UK's National Occupational Standards (NOS), the published national definitions of competent performance. They show up on every occupation page as the tasks the job is measured on.
- Roles are synthesised job profiles connected to the standards and qualifications above. Browse the roles, or read the professions they group into.
- Labour-market figures (pay, demand) appear only when they trace to a nameable authoritative source. A figure we can't source is not shown. There are no placeholder numbers anywhere on this site. The UK Skills Ladder report shows the working, with the data downloadable under the same licence.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Pay figures from the ONS carry the same licence, named on the page that shows them.
Authoritative vs suggested
Role → skill links come from the standards themselves and are treated as authoritative. Skill → qualification and role → qualification links are machine-inferred (vector similarity, top matches per standard). Everywhere they appear, on pages, widgets and reports, they are labelled "Suggested match" and presented as a starting point for a human decision, never as regulator fact.
The publish gates
- The value test: a page is published to search only if it would deserve to exist if Google did not: genuine synthesis, not reprinted regulatory data.
- The two-state rule: pages without enough substance stay public and human-usable but are excluded from search indexing until the data earns it.
- The editorial gate: data reports are generated as dated snapshots from a read-only audit of the graph, then reviewed by a human before publication. Each report names the audit it came from.
Corrections
Found something wrong? Email hello@zavmo.ai. Corrections ship as data fixes, not quiet edits, and reports carry their as-of date so a corrected edition is distinguishable from the original.