"highly skilled trades" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to specialties which require a high level of skill and training. For example, "Electricians, welders, and carpenters are all examples of highly skilled trades."
Only the highly skilled trades are heavily unionized now, despite some recent organizing successes among the laborers.
Such highly skilled trades with their own systems of apprenticeship clustered tightly around the City of London and adjacent districts.
Discovr is focusing on lesson plans for specific, highly skilled trades at first — namely, health care and medication.
"Our job boards have been full since the beginning of the year". Students like Allen are drawn to highly skilled trades, which command starting salaries in line with four-year college degrees in the humanities, according to CNN.
Birmingham's distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided a diverse and resilient economic base for industrial prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century.
In the New York metropolitan region, which is heavily unionized and where the prevailing wages reflect the cost of living, highly skilled trade workers can make over $90,000 a year with about 10 hours of overtime a week, according to John Clearwater, a professional engineer and managing director of the Construction Industry Advancement Program of New Jersey.
By buying out highly paid skilled trades workers and replacing them with entry-level employees, G.M. can make up for the larger bonuses, Mr. Jonas, the Morgan Stanley analyst, said.
Lesley Batchelor, director general of the Institute of Export, said exporting should not be seen as an "add on" as it takes a lot of skill: "It's high time we stopped pretending that there is no skill involved in international trade – our members are all highly skilled and competent in international trade".
Its pickpockets are highly skilled artists at their trade.
People who worked with the two men said they were highly skilled workers who knew their trade well.
Beginning as a trade of highly skilled craftsmen in the late eighteenth century, hairwork became tremendously popular among the middle class, and supported at its peak in the mid-nineteenth century an industry that included catalog dealers of premade pieces, standardized patterns, and how-to books for hobbyists.
