Skills Development Needs in Austrian Enterprises by Economic Sector

Key Insights:

• Team skills consistently rank as the most needed skill across all years, though declining from 85.6% in 2010 to 57.6% in 2020.
• Customer handling shows the steepest decline, dropping from 81.4% in 2010 to 45.3% in 2020.
• Specialist skills remain consistently important, maintaining around 46-67% across the period.
• Digital skills (IT General) show interesting patterns: declining from 2010 to 2015, then rising again by 2020 (54.1% → 18.8% → 23.1%).
• Numeracy and literacy shows the most dramatic decline, from 49.8% in 2010 to just 2.9% in 2020.
• Foreign language skills are consistently declining in perceived importance (48.5% → 11.2% → 5.5%).

Chart Description:

Chart Type: Multi-line chart showing trends over time

Main Color: #18baa8 (primary), with complementary colors for different skill categories

Years Displayed: 2010, 2015, 2020

Data Source: This chart displays the percentage of enterprises across all economic sectors (TOTAL) that reported needing specific skills for development. Each line represents a different skill category, showing how demand has changed over the decade.