Skills Survey 2005: Share your opinions

What is the state of the UK workforce? silicon.com would like to know and to find out we have launched our seventh annual Skills Survey.

We are asking for your opinions on business skills such as project management and leadership plus technical stuff such as programming languages. How do you feel about training, contractors and job mobility? Is there a skills shortage?

New to this year, we also want to know if you feel you've been forced to outsource to cut costs and whether you are for or against software patents in Europe.

While the first half of our annual snapshot is largely a survey of opinions, the second half allows us to anonymously profile respondents according to sector, job title, region, hours worked and - most importantly, many would say - salary.

How are those in the UK paid relative to their peers in Germany and France? Does the strong pound still give the advantage to the British?

Take part in our Skills Survey 2005 here and look for the results in March from one of the biggest studies of its type in Europe.

We're even giving away champagne to some lucky entrants (though we stress all collected data will be anonymous).