Zavmo data report · 2026-Q3 · 13 July 2026
The UK Skills Ladder
How mapped is the route from a job to a regulated qualification in the UK? We audited the full Zavmo careers graph: every role, every National Occupational Standard, every Ofqual-regulated qualification. Then we measured the connections between them.
76.8%
of the UK's 58,802 mapped roles have a complete, navigable route from job to skills to regulated qualification. Every one of those routes runs through named national standards, not guesswork.
58,802
UK roles
14,078
National Occupational Standards
601,033
regulated qualifications (RQF)
9.3
skills per mapped role, on average
Three in four roles have a mapped route
"Mapped" means at least one authoritative role → standard link; all mapped roles reach a full role → skill → qualification chain.
More than 1.5 million connections
Suggested-match links are machine-inferred (top-10 vector similarity per standard), presented as matches for a human to confirm, never as regulator fact. Authoritative links come from the standards themselves.
The numbers
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| UK roles in the graph | 58,802 | audited count |
| National Occupational Standards | 14,078 | audited count |
| Regulated qualifications (RQF) | 601,033 | audited count |
| Roles with a fully mapped route | 45,177 (76.8%) | audited count |
| Role → skill links | 419,922 | authoritative |
| Skill → qualification links | 140,780 | machine-inferred |
| Role → qualification links | 1,006,406 | machine-inferred |
| Suggested qualifications per standard | 10 | derived, machine-inferred |
Source: Zavmo careers graph — read-only production audit, 13 July 2026. Built on Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications (Open Government Licence v3.0) and UK National Occupational Standards (NOS). How this data is built →
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