Overall, the country will have a shortage of 3.1 million workers, but teachers will form the largest single proportion of this, on nine per cent. The second biggest shortfall will be in construction, on 66,800.
The figures, from the teacher supply agency Randstad Education, used employment rates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
As a measure of demand, it analysed the projected changes in UK population and working age rate for 2050 to establish the gap between employment demand and workforce supply.
The analysis showed that with a total population of 74.5 million in 2050 the UK will require a working population of 35.4 million to meet demand. However, there will be a pool of just 45.1 million people (60.5 per cent of the population) forecast to be eligible to work.
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