Skills for the job you want and the job that’s changing
The way we work is changing at unprecedented speed and the skills that once gave us an edge are becoming obsolete. While employers struggle to find people with the capabilities they need, school leavers are leaving education unable to find their first role, and experienced workers are discovering that the jobs they have trained for are disappearing.
At Maikai, we develop cutting-edge training opportunities for people, young and old, enabling them to thrive in good work. With more than £20m of funding pledged and thousands of people on our programmes, we are fixing the future of work, today.
We help identify the skills gaps in your business, the funding to help close them and report back on the impact of skills on business performance.
Training that will open opportunities to real jobs, and the skills to thrive once you get there.
We bring funded learners to accredited providers, and fund teacher training and student pathways through gifted levy.
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In focus
More than a million young people in the UK are out of work and out of education. Our Call Up programme, launched in Tottenham, brings together leading employers, public services and local communities to tackle one of the most persistent challenges facing young people: getting into work and staying there.
Read the launch story
We help schools integrate AI responsibly and ethically so that teachers can prepare students for the changing world of work and create clear pathways from classroom to career.
See our work with schools
We provide fully-funded training courses for SMEs, with a particular focus on AI, data and cyber, developing capabilities that allow them to punch above their weight.
See how we help SMEslearners and opportunities in the pipeline
funding pledged for delivery
schools reached
(As of August 2026)
The problem
The skills gap is the distance between the work that needs doing and what people can currently do, and it is widening: automation and AI are remaking jobs, and the gains are not shared fairly. Yet every large UK employer pays the Growth and Skills Levy, money set aside for training. Most never spend it, and after 12 months it expires.
(Department for Education, 2025)
of employers’ levy expires unused every year. The training it could have paid for never happened.
of core job skills will change by 2030
(World Economic Forum, 2025)
of executives already face skills gaps
(McKinsey Global Survey, 2020)
more likely to end up in a professional job from a better-off background than a working-class one
(Social Mobility Commission, 2019)
Employers, training providers, schools and local authorities each hold a critical piece of the puzzle. Maikai brings them all together: we design bespoke skills programmes that meet specific employer requirements and release the funding that allows employees to access them.
Impact
“Maikai's strong focus on measurable impact, balancing long-term business outcomes with immediate engagement metrics, is what sets them apart.”
“This partnership with Maikai will provide our alumni students with that pivotal first rung on their career ladder and for the businesses we work with, the opportunity to transform their talent puddle to a talent pool.”
“Maikai has been an exceptional partner in shaping a programme that genuinely reflects the needs of our unique community.”
