Digital Skills in Europe – European Commission Publishes a Methodological and Empirical Assessment

Digital Skills in Europe – European Commission Publishes a Methodological and Empirical Assessment

In December 2025, the European Commission published the Report “Digital Skills in Europe: A Methodological and Empirical Assessment”. 

This paper compares a set of occupation-based indicators measuring digital intensity of work and distils common findings about its distribution in the EU. It starts by providing a comprehensive overview of available occupation-based indicators of digital intensity of work and comparing the methodologies and data used to construct them. 

It proceeds to compare indicator values by occupation, highlighting that these are broadly similar across available indicators. It then provides a broad mapping of digital intensity of work across different countries and population groups. It must be noted that, although the report disaggregates the digital intensity of work by gender, level of educational attainment, age, the type of contract (permanent vs. temporary) and if workers are native or foreign-born, there is no disaggregation by workers with or without disabilities, which is a missed opportunity.

Finally, the occupation-based indicators of digital intensity are compared to other measures of work digitalisation (worker-reported use of digital skills, occupational exposure to AI) to set them in a broader context.

Report “Digital Skills in Europe: A Methodological and Empirical Assessment” available here.