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 58,802 UK role records we analysed 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 role records analysed
14,078
National Occupational Standards
601,033
regulated qualification records (RQF) analysed
9.3
skills per mapped role, on average
These are the records the audit read from the careers graph on 13 July 2026. They are a different count from the 33,605 UK roles and 1,085 courses you can open on Zavmo today, which leave out records with no page of their own.
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 role records analysed | 58,802 | audited count |
| National Occupational Standards | 14,078 | audited count |
| Regulated qualification records (RQF) analysed | 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 →
Writing about UK skills or careers? The summary and figures are free to use with attribution: press summary, the data, a spreadsheet, or email hello@zavmo.ai. Both files carry the same figures as this page, and say which of them are machine-inferred rather than regulator fact.