The Skills for Business network is made up of 25 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) - each one is an employer-led, independent organisation.  The Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA) is responsible for funding, supporting and monitoring the SSCs.

A list of sector skills councils follows:

• Asset Skills  - property, cleaning services and facilities management
• Automotive Skills - retail motor industry
• Cogent  - chemicals & pharmaceuticals, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymers
• ConstructionSkills  - construction
• Creative & Cultural Skills - advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts
• Energy & Utility Skills - electricity, gas, waste management and water industries
• e-skills UK - information technology, telecommunications and the lead body for contact centres on behalf of the Skills for Business network.
• Financial Services Skills Council - financial services industry
• GoSkills  - passenger transport
• Government Skills - Central Government
• Improve - food and drink manufacturing and processing
• Lantra  - environmental and land-based Industries
• Lifelong Learning UK - community learning and development, further education, higher education, libraries, archives and information services, work-based learning and development
• People 1st - hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism
• Proskills UK  - process and manufacturing
• Semta - science, engineering and manufacturing technologies
• Skillfast-UK  - apparel, footwear, textiles and related businesses
• Skills For Health  - health sectors across the UK
• Skills For Justice  - custodial care, community justice, court services, prosecution services, customs, excise and police
• Skills For Logistics  - the freight logistics industry
• SkillsActive  - Sport and fitness, outdoors, playwork and caravans
• Skillset - broadcast, film, video, interactive Media and photo imaging
• Skillsmart - Retail
• Skills For Care & Development - social care, children, young people's
  Services in the UK
• SummitSkills - building services engineering