The Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership brings together industry employers and sector departments to deliver a unified and forward-looking strategy for the UK’s nuclear workforce. The Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership is aligned to solve the sector’s most critical challenges: ensuring a skilled, resilient, and adaptable workforce to meet future demand.
The Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership's activities are guided by labour market intelligence, including the Nuclear Workforce Assessment and funded through employer contributions. With a focus on collaboration—not duplication—the Partnership works in alignment with the UK’s Nuclear Skills Plan, ensuring every effort contributes to a skilled and sustainable workforce pipeline.
Cogent Skills supports the Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership through collaboration and delivery as passionate advocates of skills, providing the once-voice to the sector and government.
Cogent Skills ensure Science industry employers have the skills needed for success. Harnessing the power of collaboration, we enable sector-based employers to identify, articulate and address their shared skills challenges.
The Cogent Skills Charity supports employers to work together collectively to achieve skills outcomes and impacts that are more than can be achieved individually - addressing issues where a ‘whole industry’ approach is required often due to market failure.
The Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership was established to:
Our mission is to support the growth of a diverse, high-quality workforce that will enable the safe, secure, and efficient delivery of the UK’s nuclear ambitions—including new build, decommissioning, and clean energy transition.
The Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership leads coordinated action across eight strategic priorities, delivering impact across the entire nuclear skills landscape:
Identifying and articulating long-term nuclear workforce needs—supporting national planning, such as the Nuclear Skills Plan and investment decisions through updated forecasts and targeted analysis, as well as covering gaps within the sector that aren’t yet covered under specific national plans.
Building connections with adjacent sectors like clean energy and hydrogen, developing shared curricula and exploring pathways for talent transfer to increase flexibility and resilience.
Through the Nuclear Vocational Expert Group [LINK], identify current and future skills standards needed for the nuclear sector, considering technological advancements, regulatory requirements, evolving job roles and engage with stakeholders to define and refresh training standards, apprenticeship standards and role profiles ensuring quality, consistency, and future-readiness in nuclear skills delivery.
Coordinating a collaborative approach to national STEM outreach, supporting the development of careers resources, and engage with education institutions—helping to attract and inspire young people to pursue nuclear career pathways and enhance sector reputation as a long-term employer.
Through analysis of current and future demand in higher-level skills, the Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership aims to identify demand for advanced technical and subject matter expertise - ensuring the UK maintains its innovation and leadership in nuclear science and engineering. By strengthening engagement with Universities, the Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership strives to ensure relevant higher education programmes are available for the strategically important niche areas of nuclear.
Building collaboration with global nuclear leaders to share best practices, benchmark training standards, and explore international mobility and joint training opportunities.
Employers and government departments that are actively part of the Nuclear Industry Skills Partnership include:
