Roadmap

We are always working to improve the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework. Read about what’s been recently delivered, what we’re currently working on and what’s coming up next.

The Capability Framework's roadmap is currently focused on work contributing to these outcomes:

  • a more joined-up, supportive experience for people in the profession and those who manage it
  • improved responsiveness to the changing roles and skills that government and the public sector needs, and how industry is developing
  • more confident and effective decision-making when career planning, recruiting, finding learning and development and workforce planning
  • a more accessible, secure and capable online platform for the framework

We aim to update this roadmap every 3 months and some items may change over time. The last update was on 13 October 2026.

Recently completed

We have:

  • improved accessibility and our ability to maintain and develop the framework by migrating the website to a new, more secure, content management system and rebuilt frontend interface
  • published updates to framework content on 28 August, including a new role of 'agile coach' and changes to 'business analyst', 'business relationship manager' and 'data and AI ethicist' - check the:
  • explored how the design of our role and skill descriptions, and the relationships between them, might need to change through research with digital capability leads across government
  • made it easier to understand how the framework is changing by publishing information about both recent proposed changes and the upcoming changes in development

Working on now

You can check the full list of upcoming changes to framework content.

We've started to:

  • co-design changes to framework content for 'digital portfolio manager', and other roles, in response to community feedback and change proposals
  • learn about the problems caused by the current way capability-related online content and services are provided for the profession
  • explore how to increase the responsiveness of the framework’s delivery, governance and operations

Working on next

We expect to:

  • test new concepts for a more joined-up and supportive profession experience that can better meets the needs of our users across government and the public sector
  • test new ways to help users with capability-related tasks like creating job descriptions and planning teams
  • establish governance for current and future descriptions of roles and skills at senior leadership levels

Future areas

We're thinking about:

  • making it simpler to integrate the latest framework content into internal systems, such as resource planning, recruitment and learning and development systems
  • supporting better mobility and deployment of digital, data and technology professionals across the public sector

Help improve the framework

To help us improve the framework you can:

Ask us about the roadmap

The Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework is maintained by the Government Digital Service.

If you have a question about the roadmap, contact the Capability Framework team.

You can also find previous versions of this roadmap in the UK Government Web Archive.