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Cpd courses contracts

UK public sector · 136 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
136
Last 12 months
Median contract
£33k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£30.1m
131 of 133 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
79
Suppliers
116

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most cpd courses contracts took 10% of them (13 of 136).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 35% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £33k, is 39% below the median across education & training contracts (£54k).
  • London had the most contracts: 47, or 35% of the total.

Who buys cpd courses

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs11 contracts
  2. 2Department for Work and Pensions8 contracts
  3. 3NHS England7 contracts
  4. 4Environment Agency6 contracts
  5. 5UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)5 contracts
  6. 6Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office4 contracts
  7. 7Department for Education4 contracts
  8. 8Natural Resources Wales3 contracts
  9. 9Highways England3 contracts
  10. 10Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)3 contracts

Top cpd courses contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)3 contracts
  2. 2Groundwater Science Ltd3 contracts
  3. 3CONTENT DESIGN LONDON3 contracts
  4. 4UCL Consultants2 contracts
  5. 5Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)2 contracts
  6. 6Taye Training and Consultancy2 contracts
  7. 7NHS Confederation2 contracts
  8. 8HR Wallingford2 contracts
  9. 9JBA Consulting2 contracts
  10. 10Cynnal Cymru - Sustain Wales2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

23Q4 2025*48Q1 202633Q2 202631Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 119 · Wales 11 · Scotland 6

London47North East14South West12Wales10West Midlands7East of England6South East6East Midlands5North West4Yorkshire and The Humber4Scotland3UK-wide or not stated18

What is included

Short courses, masterclasses and CPD for staff in a named professional or specialist discipline, such as finance and business cases, HR and employment practice, marketing, policy, economics or sustainability, delivered by subject-expert firms and institutes rather than leading to a professional qualification.

  • Policy, regulation and economics courses
  • Health economics and health impact assessment
  • Innovation, technology transfer and technology roadmapping
  • Sustainability and carbon literacy masterclasses
  • Practice methods for front-line staff such as work and health conversations or income maximisation
  • Sector workforce CPD hubs
  • Finance and resource management training
  • Better Business Cases training
  • School resource management training for business professionals
  • Specialist finance foundation courses
  • HR business partner development
  • People management and employment practice courses
  • HR short courses
  • Digital marketing courses
  • Search engine marketing workshops
  • Content strategy and marketing analytics training
  • Data protection, GDPR and information governance training
  • Freedom of Information training

What is not included

  • IT, digital and software user training (it.ent.it-skills-training)
  • Cyber security training (it.cyber.security-training-exercises)
  • Courses leading to a professional body qualification (edu.lead.professional-qualification-tuition)
  • Project and change management courses (edu.lead.project-and-change-management-training)
  • Credit-bearing university CPD modules (edu.he.university-degrees-and-cpd-for-staff)
  • Trade and operational technical courses (edu.tech.construction-skills-and-site-safety-training)
  • Clinical and public health training (edu.care.clinical-skills-simulation-and-patient-safety-training, edu.care.public-health-and-health-improvement-training)
  • Safety and compliance courses (edu.safe.health-and-safety-training-courses)
  • HR casework and investigations bought as a service (another industry: recruitment-hr)
  • Marketing services (another industry: marketing-creative)
  • Finance advisory support (csl.acct.finance-advice-unspecified)

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