Freeport Skills Partnership
Six visuals for a workforce analysis of the UK Freeport skills network.
- Client
- USP College
- Disciplines
- Data visualisation, Infographics
- Year
- 2026
The Problem
USP College leads a partnership of further education colleges across the UK's Freeports. It spoke to every partner college about the skills each Freeport needs, and wanted the findings in a report: The UK Freeport Skills Landscape, State of the Nations 2026.
The readers were busy college and Freeport leaders, who needed to see at a glance where each Freeport stands, where the skills gaps are and which colleges to learn from.
What I Did
The readers were busy, so I gave each visual one job. The map shows who's in the partnership, the maturity spectrum shows where each Freeport stands, the skills heat map shows where the gaps are and the roadmap shows what comes next. I talked the direction through with USP, showed them earlier work and went through the options with them before settling on each one. I made the slides from the same set.
One figure in these images is blurred for GDPR reasons.
The Work
Outcomes
Some of these graphics will be on screen at the partnership's Parliamentary launch in December 2026. They first went into the report and slides in April.
6Visuals for the report and slides
I've been working to pull it all together into the report this week and it is looking good. I have used the infographics to centre each section to let them do a lot of the talking rather than overload with too much text.
Dec 2026On screen at the Parliamentary launch
