Your technology is the gate. Be the way through it.
We read every live UK motorsport vacancy we could find across four occupations on 12 September 2026. Employers name your products by name, and then ask for no qualification that would teach them. That gap is the reason people do not apply.
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Machining vacancies asking for no formal qualification. The barrier is not a certificate, it is knowing the machine.
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Times a named technology appears across the machining scan. 26 distinct products, counted advert by advert.
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Apprenticeships naming motorsport within 30 miles of Silverstone. There is no pipeline for your technology to sit in.
Where each technology appears
Counted from live machining vacancies on the scan date. Every figure can be checked against the advert it came from.
| Technology | Category | Owner | Adverts | Share | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanuc | Machine control | FANUC Corporation | 15 | 38% | 8 |
| Heidenhain | Machine control | DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH | 7 | 18% | 6 |
| Siemens NX | CAD/CAM | Siemens Digital Industries Software | 4 | 10% | 2 |
| hyperMILL | CAM | OPEN MIND Technologies AG | 4 | 10% | 4 |
| DMG Mori | Machine | DMG MORI | 3 | 8% | 3 |
| Mazak / Mazatrol | Machine and control | Yamazaki Mazak | 3 | 8% | 3 |
| Renishaw | Probing and metrology | Renishaw plc | 3 | 8% | 1 |
| EdgeCAM | CAM | Hexagon (via Vero Software) | 2 | 5% | 2 |
| Hardinge | Machine | Hardinge Inc | 2 | 5% | 2 |
| Matsuura | Machine | Matsuura Machinery | 2 | 5% | 2 |
Naming a technology here is a statement about what employers ask for. It is not an endorsement, and it does not imply any relationship between us and the vendor.
Founding partner packages
Where your technology is the gate, the honest answer to a candidate is that they need to learn it. We would rather point them at your certification than at a search engine.
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No feeAny vendor named in the skills map
Named as a route where their technology is the gate. No logo, no content, no data.
This is how every conversation opens, and it costs us nothing. Permission to name them comes from public information.
Founding Training Partner
£4,800 a yearOne technology, one sector
Their certification named as the training route on every skills gap that names their technology. Co-branded pathway page, their course linked from each personal gap, and a quarterly demand report.
Deliberately sub-threshold: most partner managers can approve it without a budget round, which is the point at this stage.
Founding Sector Partner
£12,000 a yearOne sector, all their technologies
Everything above across every product they own, twelve content slots a year in the sector feed, named sponsor of the published sector skills report, and the full demand time series.
Sits where a trade-body or industry-report sponsorship normally sits, so it reads as a familiar line item.
Founding Programme Partner
£30,000 a yearMotorsport plus the next two sectors as they launch
Everything above across three sectors, category exclusivity for twelve months, a quarterly briefing on cross-sector skill movement, and first look at the data.
Needs a budget holder, which is appropriate for the vendors already running formal academic programmes.
Optional outcome fee: £250 per completed certification
Optional, per completed certification attributed to the platform, capped at GBP 10,000 a year. It is the number a partner manager can take to their own board.
These rates are a starting frame rather than benchmarked market pricing: vendor sponsorship rate cards are not public. Category exclusivity is offered for twelve months only. Selling it in perpetuity before there is an audience would lock out a better partner later.
Talk to us
We will send you the full scan for your technology before you decide anything: which adverts name it, at which employers, and what they ask for alongside it.