More than 230,000 construction jobs will be created over the next five years as the sector continues to grow, the latest CITB Construction Skills Network report has predicted.
The Home Building Federation (HBF) has revealed that more than 100,000 new jobs were created by the house building sector during 2015, taking the number of positions supported by the industry in England to 667,000.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK Construction Market Survey has concluded that the skills shortage is set to continue and predicted that it will hamper growth and push up wages in the sector.
The Government has been warned that any efforts to solve the housing crisis will fail unless steps are taken to tackle the construction sector’s skills shortage.
Workers have been urged to consider training for construction jobs after it was revealed that wages in the building trade climbed at a faster rate than in any other sector over the past year.
Nearly 100,000 new construction workers and engineers need to be recruited and trained by 2020 in order to successfully deliver major infrastructure projects, according to the National Infrastructure Plan for Skills.
The number of construction jobs in the UK is likely to continue to grow in the coming months as employers remain confident about their prospects, a new industry survey has found.
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