Digital Skills Gap Intelligence
Anonymised aggregate data from TalentPath assessments. No individual data is ever exposed. Based on DigComp 3.0 assessments completed by EU citizens and workers.
The 2030 context
The Digital Decade Policy Programme commits the EU to two skills targets by 2030: at least 80% of adults with basic digital skills, and 20 million employed ICT specialists. Neither is on track.
Basic digital skills
60% vs 80% target
EU adults with at least basic digital skills (Eurostat, 2025). At the current pace the EU is projected to reach only ~60% by 2030.
ICT specialists
10.3M vs 20M target
Employed ICT specialists in 2024 — barely halfway, with ~12 million projected by 2030 at current growth.
SME digital intensity
73% vs 90% target
SMEs with at least basic digital intensity (2024) — on current trends the 90% target is out of reach before 2030.
The divergence problem
Four member states already exceed the 80% target — the Netherlands (84%), Ireland (83%), Denmark and Finland (81%) — while Romania (32%) and Bulgaria (38%) sit at less than half of it, and ten member states reported declining basic-skills shares between 2022 and 2025. EU averages hide exactly the gaps policy needs to see.
Why behavioural data
Headline indicators are largely self-reported survey data. TalentPath aggregates are different: tested under exam conditions, mapped to DigComp 3.0 and ESCO, and updated continuously — skills intelligence that is targeted and current, not retrospective. More than €288 billion of digital investment deserves measurement that shows where it lands.
Sources: State of the Digital Decade report (European Commission); Eurostat, Skills for the digital age (2025); European Labour Authority, Labour shortages and surpluses in Europe (2024).