Language Trends 2005 - Language service providers
The survey of language and cultural service providers was carried out by CILT, the National Centre for Languages in spring 2005, by means of a questionnaire sent via e-mail to all registered BLIS Professionals providers based in the UK and with an e-mail address.
The key findings include:
- Finance, IT and legal services are the three business sectors
from which providers currently have the most work. It is
predicted that future demand will remain the same in these
three sectors, whereas demand is likely to increase in both
the tourism sector and the public service sector. - The language services sector is still dominated by small
companies and sole traders. - While the demand for language training appears to be
decreasing, there is a discernible increase in demand for
translation services. - There is a growing demand for localisation and cultural
training services. - Across all forms of language service, French, Spanish,
German, Italian and Portuguese are the most popular
languages that providers currently offer to their clients. - Demand for Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Japanese is
growing, while demand for German is decreasing. - There is some increase in demand for Eastern European languages,
particularly Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Slovak.
