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Find out which infrastructure projects are coming to your area and when the work starts, so your courses can be ready two years before the hiring begins. Open the live map to start with your own catchment.
1,113 LIVE PROJECTS · £475bn OF WORK, TRACKED
Start a two-year course next September and your first students finish in 2029. Train a cable jointer and it is nearer five years before they are fully productive. The projects that will hire them have dates in public already, in planning decisions and construction notices scattered across developers, regulators and councils.
Pull those dates together for your catchment and you can plan against demand instead of guessing at it. We have done the pulling. Open the GridteamAI map and you find 1,113 live UK and Irish projects, each with its stage, its next milestone and the source we read it in.
Take the biggest project in our first skills pack, which covers Tees Valley, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. QTS won approval for the first two buildings of its data centre campus at Cambois in December 2025. Northumberland County Council puts the whole campus at £10 billion and expects it to employ around 400 people once it is running.
Look past the £10 billion and you can see the pattern a curriculum team needs. Building jobs come first, operating jobs are fewer, and both have dates.
Plan for two waves. Net Zero Teesside Power, which Balfour Beatty is building at Redcar under an £833 million contract, says it could create and support more than 3,000 jobs while it is built and 1,000 once it is running, with start-up expected in 2028. Eastern Green Link 1 is the subsea power cable under construction between Scotland and County Durham, and it is due to be operating in 2029.
Start two-year courses for operating roles by September 2027 and your first students finish as those operating teams grow.
Pass the pack to whoever plans your courses or looks after employer partnerships, because we wrote it for them.
Download the North East skills pack. It covers eight projects, with their dates and the trades each will need, shows where your region already trains for them, and sources every figure. Browse the live map for your own catchment too, by place and by sector.
The Wire is our weekday morning briefing on contracts won and projects given the go-ahead. Read it and you hear about a new employer in your area the day after it is announced.
Download the North East pack → Open the map →Open the full record on any project, with the developer, the stage, the next milestone, the announced value and the source for each. Download the data for your own planning papers. Each new regional skills pack comes to you as it is published, along with the quarterly update to the first one.
An education licence covers your curriculum, employer-partnership and careers teams. Ten named readers, £995 a year.
Subscribe →Commission a catchment pack and we write up every live project within reach of your campuses, with dates, likely trades and the employers behind them, in a form your governors can read and your Local Skills Improvement Plan evidence can draw on. It starts at £1,500.
Book a senior consultant for a day to go through the pack and your course plan with your curriculum team. That is £750.
Work with us →From the developer, the regulator, the council or the government department that published them, and each figure on the map carries its source and the date we read it. Check any of them before you rely on it.
No, the map covers the whole of the UK and Ireland, the next regional packs follow the same template, and you can commission a pack for any campus now.
No, we show you which projects are coming, when, and the trades they have said they will need, and your curriculum team decides what to do about it. We can sit in on that conversation if you want us to.
The Electricity Networks Sector Growth Plan, published by the networks and their suppliers in October 2026, expects 128,000 job openings across the networks by 2035 and aims for 6,000 apprenticeship starts by then. Read our People Problem page for the national skills gap sector by sector, with sources, and nothing on it sits behind a sign-in.
Email book@gridteamai.com about a regional pack, a catchment pack or a licence for your teams. Expect a reply from a person within a working day.
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