Victorian Training Market Reports
Skills Victoria develops training market information reports as required. This page outlines:
Victorian training market reports
These quarterly reports present an analysis of activity in Victoria’s vocational education and training system. They provide detail about:
- how many people are in government funded training
- what they are training in
- where they are accessing training
- whether training provision is responding to employer’s skill needs.
Quarter 3 2011
Skills Victoria’s latest Victorian Training Market Quarterly Report shows that by the end of quarter 3 in 2011, funded student numbers had increased by 25 per cent, government funded enrolments were up 27 per cent and government funded student contact hours were up 31 per cent compared to the same period in 2010.Victorian Training Market Quarterly Report – Q3 2011 (PDF, 5220.98 KB) Victorian Training Market Quarterly Report – Q3 2011 (DOC, 5280.5 KB) This report presents an analysis of the Victorian training market’s key features and emerging trends. The report also includes a case study of the Gippsland region which examines the responsiveness of the regional training market to structural shifts in the economy and occupational need. The reporting period covered is 2008 to the end of September 2011.
Previous reports
Previous Victorian training market reports are available from the Publications section of this website.
An industry view of Victorian skill needs in 2011
An Industry Skills Needs Report is created annually for Skills Victoria. It provides a labour market outlook and analysis of skills needs at industry level, including occupations in demand and critical skills shortages for each of the sixteen Industry Training Advisory Body (ITAB) industry groupings in Victoria.
Skills Victoria commissioned the report to incorporate industry intelligence gathered from the sixteen ITABs on skills needs and validated against economic and labour market outlook data. As part of its role in facilitating the more effective operation of the training market, Skills Victoria wishes to provide reliable information on labour market opportunities and the skills needs of industry.
Skills needs profile
The report forecasts that the Victorian economy will record strong employment growth of 4.4 per cent in 2011. By ITAB industry, business services, community services and electro-technology and communications are expected to record the strongest employment growth in 2011 with food processing and construction also expected to enjoy solid growth. In contrast, textiles, clothing and footwear, manufacturing and engineering and automotive may be relatively weak.
Skills shortages
Overall, ITABs have identified 139 occupations as being in demand across the 16 industries. Of these, some 59 (or 42 per cent) were also categorised as experiencing a critical skill shortage. The major critical skill shortage areas include:
- traditional trades occupations in automotive, engineering, construction, electro-technology and communications, hospitality, furnishing and textile, clothing and footwear
- nursing, aged care and community services
- accounting, project managers and supervisors, retail and restaurant managers
- digital broadcast technicians and games designers
- animal technicians, arborists, agricultural consultants and agronomists
- heavy vehicle drivers and train drivers.
Victorian skill needs in 2011: A summary of industry intelligence (DOC 2.1 mb) Skills Victoria commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to provide an outlook for the Victorian labour market in 2011.
More information on ITABs in Victoria is available from the Skills Victoria Corporate website.