L&D Economy 2025 - Employment
Work and Salary Report 2025: Redundancies in L&D down; Rise in L&D qualifications; Salary satisfaction down; Sharp drop in short employment tenures; More L&D budgets to increase than decrease.
Blue Eskimo has published its annual Work and Salary Report showing insights into L&D employment, reporting on working trends, budgets, remuneration, job satisfaction, changing jobs, work-life balance, impact of generative AI, qualifications and more.
Redundancies have slightly declined from 2023, a welcome drop, but still significant; the number of those taking four or more months to find a new job has increased; salary satisfaction has dropped for the third consecutive year.
Promotions are up, many more people were promoted in the last year; the number of L&D professionals with a related qualification is also up; there are indications that more L&D budgets will increase than decrease in the year ahead.
There is a sharp drop in short employment tenures of under one year. Longer tenures of three years or more have increased.
Report author Nick Jones from Blue Eskimo joins Learning News to explain the L&D employment landscape.
Nick Jones: “2024 proved to be an exceptionally challenging year for year for many in L&D, static or even reduced budgets as predicted in our 2024 survey played out with resultant cancellation or pauses in projects. In the Learning technology sector, we saw a slowdown in new platform implementations and content projects as both providers and end clients grapple with the potential for AI technology in learning. In the digital learning space we have seen a widespread adoption of AI enabled content production capability as the use of Generative AI tools and then integrated products have come on stream. Reported redundancies have slightly declined from 15% in 2023 to 11% in 2024 which although a welcome drop is still significant.”
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Work and Salary Report 2025