DigiTay: The Tay Cities Digital Skills Project

The Tay Cities Digital Skills Project is part of the £20 million, Regional Skills and Employability Development Programme, funded by the Scottish Government. Approved in December 2022, the Digital Skills Project was awarded over £1.5m of government funding, over a 3 year period to  support regional economic growth and the digital labour market throughout Angus, Dundee, North East Fife and Perth & Kinross.

DigiTay, the Digital Skills Project is on a mission to achieve the strength in skills that a future digital economy will need. We are doing this through the delivery of a range of activities, initiatives and training programmes related to skilling, re-skilling and upskilling in digital and data skills, ensuring that the Tay Cities Region has the necessary workforce skills on our doorstep. 

8,000

The Tay Cities Region hosts around 8,000 digital and data related jobs and 43% of those jobs are based in Dundee

25%

A quarter of people working in digital jobs in the Tay Cities Region are Software Developers

15,600

Every year in Scotland there are around 15,600 digital technology vacancies needing to be filled. 

1,000

By 2025 there will be an additional 1000 digital technology vacancies across digital in the Tay Cities Region

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1296

people supported through fully funded activity

£708,999

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