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Discover your digital skills level
As part of our No One Left Offline campaign, we're inviting you to take our free digital assessment to measure your skill level!
This simple assessment takes roughly 15 minutes to complete and will provide you with your overall digital skills level, as well as highlight your strengths and any areas in which you could improve.
Our digital assessment is free for anyone in the UK to access for a limited period – so, spread the word amongst your colleagues, family and friends and take the test ahead of Friday 20 September to discover your digital skills working level. Access our tool and click 'Register' to get started!
Looking for help with completing our digital assessment? Click here to view our helpful User Guide.
What can I do next?
Have you completed our digital assessment? Are you looking for additional support in advancing your digital skills?
Read our FAQs to discover more about:
- the options available to improve your digital skills
- your legal entitlement to free, fully-funded digital courses
- where you could study a digital qualification
- the difference between Foundation Level, Entry Level and Level 1.
Are digital skills essential in 2024?
Is having digital skills essential in today's world? Which digital skills are the most important? And crucially, how might people without these skills be impacted in their day-to-day lives?
We took to the streets of Newcastle to ask the public these very questions – as well as asking them to rate their own digital skills on a scale from 1-10.
Hear their responses in this video!
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We launched our No One Left Offline campaign to highlight the importance of digital skills needed to navigate the modern world. This includes professionally, such as applying for jobs and using digital tools in the workplace, as well as in everyday life, including staying safe online, understanding your digital footprint, and carrying out tasks such as banking or booking a GP appointment.
Data from FutureDotNow's The Essential Digital Skills Gap report tells us that:
- 21.7m working-age adults can't complete all digital tasks essential for today's workplace
- 54% of the labour force are missing digital basics around safety, productivity and more
- 1.9m working-age adults cannot complete any of the essential digital work tasks.
Furthermore – and possibly, contrary to belief – the digital skills gap affects every industry (27% of people working in the tech sector don't have all 20 tasks), every region (at least 50% of the UK workforce cannot complete all 20 essential digital tasks for work) and every age group (even across 18-24 year-olds, almost half can’t do all 20 tasks.)
Working together, we hope that our campaign raises awareness and encourages individuals to learn and develop their essential digital skills.
Today, over half of working age adults can’t perform all 20 digital tasks industry and government agree are essential for today’s workplace.