Local Government Skills Mapping
That Sees the Whole Organisation
Give your council cross-department visibility into workforce capabilities. Support transformation programmes, succession planning, and smarter service delivery with AI-powered skills mapping and automated signposting to relevant training and resources.
Council workforce challenges you already know too well
Local authorities manage thousands of staff across dozens of departments, yet most lack a clear picture of the skills they already have. Sound familiar?
Siloed departments hide transferable skills
Housing, planning, social care, IT: each service area manages its own people in isolation. Valuable skills sit undiscovered just one department away, invisible to the wider organisation.
Succession planning gaps as senior staff retire
An ageing workforce and rising retirement rates put critical knowledge at risk. Without a clear skills map, councils struggle to identify who can step into key roles before institutional expertise walks out the door.
Transformation programmes need skills visibility
Digital transformation, shared services, and devolution demand new capabilities. Without a public sector skills audit to baseline current capacity, councils plan in the dark and overspend on external consultants.
Local authority skills management, built for how councils actually work
SkillDrill gives your council a single, living skills map that spans every service area, making workforce planning proactive rather than reactive.
See skills across every department in one place
No more spreadsheets locked in service area silos. SkillDrill maps the skills of your entire workforce, from highways to housing, finance to children's services, so you can search, filter, and discover capabilities you never knew existed.
- Organisation-wide skills search across all departments
- Filter by service area, department, location, or skill category
- Spot transferable skills that unlock internal redeployment
- Hierarchical department structure mirrors your org chart
Housing & Communities
142 staff mapped
Digital & Technology
68 staff mapped
Children's Services
203 staff mapped
Finance & Governance
91 staff mapped
Plan succession and internal mobility with confidence
Council workforce planning depends on knowing who can step up when experienced staff move on. SkillDrill identifies emerging talent, highlights skills gaps, and helps you build internal pipelines so critical roles are never left exposed.
- Identify staff with skills aligned to critical leadership roles
- Highlight skills gaps before they become vacancies
- Reduce reliance on costly agency staff and external recruitment
- Support council staff development and career progression
Search by skills needed for a role
Find staff who already have the capabilities a critical role requires
Spot skills gaps across departments
See where capabilities are concentrated and where they are thin
Inform development conversations
Use skills data to guide career progression and training plans
Support digital transformation with real skills data
Transformation programmes succeed when you understand your starting point. SkillDrill gives programme leads a clear baseline of digital, data, and technical skills across the council, so you can target training investment, identify internal champions, and reduce dependency on external contractors.
- Baseline digital and data literacy across all service areas
- Identify digital champions and internal transformation leads
- Target training budgets where they will have the greatest impact
- Track capability growth as transformation programmes progress
Data analysis & reporting
67%Cloud platforms & SaaS tools
52%Process automation
31%AI and machine learning
14%Percentage of staff with self-reported competence
Built for every type of local authority
Whether you are a county council with thousands of staff or a district council sharing services with neighbours, SkillDrill adapts to your structure.
County councils
Map skills across large, multi-site workforces with dozens of service areas and thousands of employees.
District and borough councils
Get maximum value from smaller, multi-skilled teams where every person's capabilities truly matter.
Combined authorities
Aggregate skills intelligence across member authorities to support devolution and regional strategy.
Shared services partnerships
Map skills across partner organisations to optimise shared service delivery and resource allocation.
Direct people to the right resources
After each conversation, SkillDrill shows relevant training links, support contacts, or next steps based on what was discussed. Configure rules to match skills, keywords, or welfare concerns to the right resources.
Keep profiles fresh automatically
Set review intervals per question set. SkillDrill reminds people when a catch-up is due and carries forward their previous answers so they only update what has changed. New skills and qualifications are captured automatically.
Three steps to a complete public sector skills audit
Getting started is straightforward. Most councils are up and running within a day, with no IT integration required.
Set up your council structure
Add your departments, service areas, locations, and staff. SkillDrill mirrors your org chart with hierarchical structures, so permissions and reporting make sense from day one.
Staff have AI conversations
Each team member has a natural, 10 to 15 minute conversation with the AI. It adapts to their answers, exploring skills, experience, qualifications, and career interests in depth.
Explore, analyse, and act
Search and filter skills across every department. Identify gaps, plan succession, and use real skills data to support workforce strategies, transformation bids, and service redesign.
Ready to map the skills across your council?
Join local authorities using SkillDrill to unlock workforce potential, support transformation, and plan for the future.
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