Patterns of co-occurrent skills in UK job adverts
Fig 9
Projection of the skill profiles of NUTS2 regions.
(a) UMAP projection of the set of MS21 percentage vectors of the NUTS2 regions, where each region is described by a 21-dimensional vector containing the percentage of adverts in the MS21 skill clusters. NUTS2 regions with similar skill profiles lie close in this projection. The dots of the NUTS2 regions are coloured a posteriori according to average salary in the region, and the size of the dot reflects population density of the region. (b) The hierarchical clustering of the NUTS2 regions based on their MS21 percentage vectors reveals regional groupings that reflect shared geographic, socio-demographic, occupational and industrial similarities. (c) The hierarchical clustering of the MS21 skill clusters based on z-scores across regions reveals skills concentrations that differentiate regions.