Powerful skill gap analysis

Spot skill gaps, upskilling, reskilling and recruitment opportunities with MuchSkills skills gap analysis software.

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Bring skills & competencies to light in minutes

Take a strategic approach to building your skill matrix

MuchSkills gives you clear visibility into your organisation’s skills, competencies, proficiency and interest levels, certifications, and overall skill distribution. With this skills intelligence, you can build a truly modern skill matrix, and confidently create high-performing teams.

Map your skills

Tap into a rich database of 100,000+ skills and certifications. Generate a custom AI-driven skills taxonomy tailored to your organisation.

Understand your workforce

Define key roles and competencies – then instantly identify the right people with the right skills, proficiency levels, and certifications.

Deploy winning teams

Match projects with the best-fit individuals, build well-balanced teams, and improve delivery outcomes across your organisation.

The new standard in skills-gap analysis

Data that turns risks and opportunities into action.

Beautiful data visualisations help you understand what skills you have and where you have skill gaps. Here are examples of skill gap analysis you can do with MuchSkills

Do we have the skills for the future?
Productivity tools and software competence
Range of expertise
Leadership competencies
Tech skills
Hidden talent
Number of employees per skill
​​Skill level distribution
Skill gaps & risk
Skill & competency opportunities
Strategise team member growth
Identify upskilling & recruitment opportunities

Reports that dive into the details

Gain insights and make smarter decisions with skills intelligence data. Use our powerful search and smart filters to quickly find the skills and expertise you need. Do you have staff in New York or Shanghai? Instantly discover project management experts across countries, departments & more.

Skill opportunity and risk

Identify strengths, spot skills gaps, and gain insights into the distribution of skills across departments and locations.

Certification status

Easily identify expired or soon-to-expire certifications and quickly spot employees lacking necessary certifications.

Skill growth

Gain a clear understanding of how your organisation is upskilling and developing talent.

Skills changes

Stay on top of valuable skills, competencies and certification changes within your organisation.

Trend reports

Identify trends in skills, including those gaining increasing interest and experiencing growing demand within the organisation.

Upskilling & goal analysis

Gain insights into your employees' upskilling needs. Identify gaps and develop strategies to provide skill-development resources.

Utilisation clarity and forecasting

Understand each employee’s utilisation over time and view all available resources for the present and upcoming months.

Generate skill insights in seconds, with AI as your co-pilot

Ask a question. Get a report. Make smarter decisions.

MuchSkills makes skill gap analysis fast, flexible, and deeply insightful. Just describe what you want to understand, and AI takes care of the rest.

  • Want to analyse the top skills in your product team?
  • Identify gaps in your leadership pipeline?
  • Analyze the critical skills behind a high-performance culture?

Paste your prompt, and MuchSkills generates a structured report with the right skill categories, levels, and visual breakdowns. You can instantly see strengths, gaps, experts, and development needs, across teams, roles, or the entire organisation.

Personalised development & skill gap analysis, at scale

Support learning journeys with data – not assumptions

Use role-based skills gap analysis to show employees where they shine and where they can grow. Align employee development with role, project, and team needs. Track progress. Validate skills. Deliver growth that matters.

Clear skill gap analysis for everyone

Employees and managers can quickly see strengths and growth areas – in a way that’s easy to understand and act on.

AI-supported goal setting

Employees or managers choose an upskilling goal, and AI generates a personalised strategic development plan.

Follow-up and tracking

Track upskilling progress over time, with historical insights available across individuals, teams and departments

Managers finally have the data to lead development

Real insight. Better conversations. Stronger growth.

MuchSkills gives managers a complete, up-to-date view of each team member – including skills, certifications, growth history, and goal progress. 

With one click, they can run a skills gap analysis for any role and turn every
one-on-one into a high-impact coaching conversation.

Assess employee fit for any role
Track growth over time
Stay compliant
Validate skills fast

Unlock internal mobility

Let skills – not titles – drive careers.

MuchSkills reveals how each employee’s skills align with roles across your organisation. Employees see clear next steps. Managers spot who’s ready. HR gains visibility into a living talent pipeline. Career mobility becomes transparent, data-driven, and motivating.

Internal recruitment, made easy

Define a new role in minutes and instantly see which employees fit best.

Personalised role-fit reports

Each employee receives a clear snapshot of how they match every role and which skills to grow.

Smart career conversations

Managers bring real-time role fit and AI-powered insights into every one-to-one conversation.

AI-powered on-demand org-wide skills reports for leadership

Strategic insights to guide hiring, upskilling, and workforce planning

MuchSkills uses anonymised skills data, employee goals, and strategic objectives to generate deep, AI-driven analysis. Generate detailed, boardroom-ready reports that give leaders a clear view of workforce strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities. Insightful. Actionable. Executive-level.

Find the perfect internal candidate in minutes

AI-powered internal recruitment that’s faster, smarter, and skills-first

Define the role
Paste in a job title or description. MuchSkills AI instantly builds the required skill profile.
See who fits
Instantly view every employee’s match to the role – ranked by fit and readiness

Skills gap analysis for the modern workforce

Track proficiency levels, validate inputs and add your own unique skills and competencies.

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Certifications
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Tech skills
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Capabilities
MuchSkills can be used by HR and L&D departments

Custom skills & competency mapping for your organisation

Every organisation has a unique structure, goals, roles, and responsibilities. Tailor a skills taxonomy to map the skills most relevant to organisational success.

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Cultural and behavioural skills

Map the soft skills that enable autonomous, high-performing teams.

Unique expertise

Capture your team’s specialised knowledge in areas such as carbon capture, Salesforce APIs, AI, logistics, and more.

Languages

Map and track all spoken languages and proficiency levels across your organisation.

Product and service knowledge

Map each employee’s knowledge about your product’s features and service offerings

Customer knowledge

Map employees’ client-experience and customer-domain expertise.

Industry knowledge

Map experience and expertise across different industries.

Interests

Record individual preferences such as travel, gaming, or other relevant interests.

Enhanced certification management

Track active, expiring, and expired certificates

Maintain full control over every certification - proof, documentation, ownership, issue dates, and expiry. MuchSkills automatically reminds employees and managers when certifications are due for renewal, helping you stay compliant without manual follow-ups.

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Award winning playbooks

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APIs and Integrations out of the box

Connect your HR tech stack with ease

Sync skills data across your entire ecosystem — from HRIS to BI tools

Conduct a professional skill gap analysis today

Trusted by teams across the globe

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Red Dot winner

Finally a visual, intuitive skills map our teams actually use

Eliminated spreadsheet chaos across 200+ employees

Transformed how we talk about skills — from assumptions to data

Cut workforce planning time by 60%

Finally a visual, intuitive skills map our teams actually use

90% clearer visibility into team skills and project readiness

Unlock great work

Talent marketplace & internal mobility
Find the talent you are looking for within your organisation
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Skill gap & talent risk analysis
Spot skill gaps and talent risks in real-time
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Talent insights and workforce reports
The data you need to take strategic action
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Team builder
Build autonomous, skills-based teams in minutes
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Team utilisation reporting and capacity planning
Understand capacity, find available resources and optimise utilisation
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Employee development & progress planning
Strengths-centric employee development
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Organisational chart
An automatically generated interactive org chart
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APIs & Integrations
Data synchronisation between systems
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We guide you every step of the way

From setup to strategy, our experts help you unlock the full value of skills intelligence

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Skills taxonomy design

Work with our experts to define the skills your organisation needs to succeed

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Workforce mapping

Capture every employee’s skills, certifications, and competencies accurately

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Enablement & training

Equip managers, HR, and L&D teams to lead with confidence using skills data

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Insights into action

Turn your data into strategies, and your strategies into measurable outcomes

MuchSkills works for

MuchSkills works for

Skills-based organisations
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Transform into a skills-based organisation! Increase employee engagement, productivity, profits, and lower attrition.
Compliance & risk teams
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Stay audit-ready, risk-aware, and fully aligned with today’s skills and certification regulatory requirements.
Tech teams
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Optimise talent allocation for every task and project. Empower employees and teams to grow their skills and recruit more strategically. Identify skill gaps and mitigate risks.
Professional & consulting firms
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Increase utilisation, identify skills on the bench, assign talent optimally for every task and project. Work more strategically with your most important resource: people and their skills.
HR and L&D departments
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Implement a proven HR process to increase productivity, employee engagement, talent development and reduce attrition.