Employment by industry and sex, UK, published quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.

Full-time, part-time and temporary workers, by sex, UK, rolling three-monthly figures published monthly, seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.

United Kingdom UK: Labour Force data was reported at 33,870,286.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 33,693,492.000 Person for 2016. United Kingdom UK: Labour Force data is updated yearly, averaging 30,005,845.500 Person from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2017, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 33,870,286.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 28,418,872.000 Person in 1995. United Kingdom UK: Labour Force data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Labour Force. Labor force comprises people ages 15 and older who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period. It includes people who are currently employed and people who are unemployed but seeking work as well as first-time job-seekers. Not everyone who works is included, however. Unpaid workers, family workers, and students are often omitted, and some countries do not count members of the armed forces. Labor force size tends to vary during the year as seasonal workers enter and leave.; ; Derived using data from International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database and World Bank population estimates. Labor data retrieved in September 2018.; Sum; Data up to 2016 are estimates while data from 2017 are projections.

The headcount of the number of Social Workers employed by Leicester City Council. These are broken down by basis employed (casual, full time, part time) and the combined hours worked per week.

The data represents a snapshot and is collected on the last day of each quarter. The data will be updated quarterly.

Numbers of jobs in an area by gender, and whether an employee or self-employed.

This data shows the number of jobs, not the number of people. People with more than one job are counted more than once.
Figures may not add up due to rounding. Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place and were calculated on unrounded figures.
Employees - An employee is anyone aged 16 years or over that an organisation directly pays from its payroll(s), in return for carrying out a full-time or part-time job or being on a training scheme. It excludes voluntary workers, self-employed and working owners who are not paid via PAYE
People who are self-employed in a second job are included in the self-employed totals.
Self-employment data is taken from the Annual Population Survey, and is by place of work. The micro data is available from the UK Data Archive.
The male/female split for employee jobs was taken from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings data from NOMISweb.co.uk. These proportions were then applied to the BRES employee totals since the ASHE is a not a reliable source for total employee jobs.

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Modelled estimates and projections of jobs are available in the GLA Employment Projections. These are considered to be the most accurate jobs estimates at borough level.

According to statistics published by the European Commission, the number of data professionals are estimated at a total of 7.6 million in the 27 European Union countries and the United Kingdom in 2019, marking a 5.5-percent increase over the previous year. The number of data professionals is forecast to grow in the coming years, reaching 11.3 million by 2025 in the baseline scenario.

According to the source, data professionals are workers who collect, store, manage, and/or analyze, interpret, and visualize data as their primary or as a relevant part of their activity.

United Kingdom UK: Part Time Employment: % of Total Employment data was reported at 33.690 % in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 34.070 % for 2016. United Kingdom UK: Part Time Employment: % of Total Employment data is updated yearly, averaging 33.310 % from Dec 1983 (Median) to 2017, with 35 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 36.160 % in 2010 and a record low of 27.190 % in 1983. United Kingdom UK: Part Time Employment: % of Total Employment data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Part time employment refers to regular employment in which working time is substantially less than normal. Definitions of part time employment differ by country.; ; International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in September 2018.; Weighted average; Relevance to gender indicator: More and more women are working part-time and one of the concern is that part time work does not provide the stability that full time work does.

Employee jobs by industry and sex, UK, published quarterly, not seasonally adjusted.

United Kingdom Employment: sa: Temporary Employees (TE) data was reported at 1,546.474 Person th in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,529.723 Person th for Apr 2018. United Kingdom Employment: sa: Temporary Employees (TE) data is updated monthly, averaging 1,574.657 Person th from Apr 1992 (Median) to May 2018, with 314 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,874.090 Person th in Aug 1997 and a record low of 1,208.758 Person th in Apr 1992. United Kingdom Employment: sa: Temporary Employees (TE) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office for National Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s UK – Table UK.G017: Labour Force Survey: Employment: Seasonally Adjusted: Part Time and Temporary. Labour Force Estimates are shown for the mid-month of the three-month average time periods. For example, estimates for January to March 2012 are shown as 'February 2012', estimates for February to April 2012 are shown as 'March 2012', etc.

There were over 33.9 million people employed in the United Kingdom in the three months to March 2025. In general, the number of people employed has consistently increased, with noticeable dips in employment occurring in 2008 due to the global financial crisis, and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Labor market hot streak in 2022 Although there was a sharp increase in the UK's unemployment rate in the aftermath of COVID-19, the UK labor market bounced back forcefully after this sudden shock. By the middle of 2022, the UK's unemployment rate had recovered to pre-pandemic levels, while the number of job vacancies in the UK reached record highs. Wage growth was, by this point, growing at a much slower rate than inflation, which peaked at 11.1 percent in October 2022. In the two years since this peak, the UK labor market has cooled slightly; with unemployment reaching 4.4 percent by December 2024, and the number of job vacancies falling to the lowest figures since May 2021. Characteristics of UK workers As of 2024, the majority of UK workers were working in the private sector, at over 27.6 million workers. In the same year the size of the UK's public sector workforce stood at approximately 6.1 million, with over two million of these people working for the UK's National Health Service (NHS), and a further 1.66 million in the public education sector. In the UK's private sector, the industry sector which employed the most people was wholesale and retail, which had a workforce of over 4.9 million people, followed by administrative and support service roles at around 3.1 million.

Employment (workplace) by industry from the Business register and employment survey (BRES). This data excludes self-employed but includes proprietors Employment = employees + working proprietors. Working Proprietors are sole traders, sole proprietors, partners and directors. This does not apply to registered charities. Numbers have all been rounded to the nearest 100 Before the BRES first existed in 2009, the ABI collected employment data by industry. The two surveys are not directly comparable. The BRES is a business survey which collects both employment and financial information. Only employment information for the location of an employees workplace is available from Nomis The BRES is based on a sample of approximately 80,000 businesses and is used to provide an estimate of the number of employees. The difference between the estimate and its true value is known as the sampling error. The actual sampling error for any estimate is unknown but we can estimate, from the sample, a typical error, known as the standard error. This provides a means of assessing the precision of the estimate; the lower the standard error, the more confident we can be the estimate is close to the true value. NOMIS website article

This dataset excludes farm based agriculture data contained in SIC class 0100.

Data and charts accompanying the 'Business Register Employment Survey 2010: London' publication

The ABI was replaced by the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) from 2009 onwards, therefore this dataset will no longer be updated.

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https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/workplace-employment-industry-borough

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This release contains findings on the skill level of jobs held by workers who are not born in the UK. There will also be information on the changes in the number of non-UK born workers in the UK over the decade between 2001 and 2010.

Source agency: Office for National Statistics

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Non-UK born workers

Census 2021 occupation data for people aged 16 years and older and in employment, by age and sex, is part of The occupations and industries most dependent on older and younger workers: March 2021, a release of results from the 2021 Census for England and Wales. Figures may differ slightly in future releases because of the impact of removing rounding and applying further statistical processes.

Some shorthand may be used in this workbook. Individual estimates suppressed with "[c]" relate to statistics based on a small number of respondents (< 10). Such values have been suppressed on quality grounds and to maintain confidentiality.

Armed forces personnel and defence employees are included in the census and recorded as usually resident using the standard definitions. The instructions given to personnel on how to respond to the census mean that this group cannot be reliably identified in census data on industry and occupation. Information on the size and characteristics of the UK armed forces population is produced by the Ministry of Defence (MOD).

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Occupation

Occupation is classified using the Standard Occupation Classification 2020 version. Details can be found here.

Industry

Industry is classified using the Standard Industrial Classifications 2007 version. Details can be found here.

Age

This is someone’s age on their last birthday on Census Day, 21 March 2021 in England and Wales.

An analysis of part-time workers who would like to be in full-time employment. Their part-time employment is involuntary based on views recorded in the Labour Force Survey. These individuals in part-time jobs are either seeking more hours, looking for an additional job or looking for a replacement role. The UK Labour Force Survey covers Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This analysis is a small ad-hoc piece produced by BIS analysts. It is one of many occasional statistical publications generated by the department. Further publications can be located by following this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-occasional-statistics

This report examines the characteristics of workers who are underemployed, defined as those who want more hours in work. For example it looks at the full time/part time status, age and occupation of underemployed workers. It also looks at the rise in underemployment in the UK since 2008. Source agency: Office for National Statistics Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Underemployed Workers in the UK

These figures show the median gross annual pay for full-time workers on a resident basis for the area, who are on adults rates of pay, and whose pay was not affected by absence. Figures are for GB pounds per annum. Full-time workers are defined as those who work more than 30 paid hours per week or those in teaching professions working 25 paid hours or more per week. Figures for earnings come from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) which is based on a 1 per cent sample of employees, information on whose earnings and hours is obtained from employers. The survey does not cover people who are self-employed, nor does it cover employees not paid during the reference period. Information relates to a pay period in April. The earnings information collected relates to gross pay before tax, national insurance or other deductions, and excludes payments in kind (i.e. payment made in the form of goods and services rather than cash). It is restricted to earnings relating to the survey pay period and so excludes payments of arrears from another period made during the survey period; any payments due as a result of a pay settlement but not yet paid at the time of the survey will also be excluded. Estimates for 2011 and subsequent years use a weighting scheme based on occupations which have been coded according to Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2010 that replaced SOC 2000. Therefore care should be taken when making comparisons with earlier years. Where the estimate is assessed with a coefficient of variation (CV) of over 20 per cent, these figures have been suppressed, as they are considered by the ONS as unreliable.Data is Powered by LG Inform Plus and automatically checked for new data on the 3rd of each month.

The Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed geography and industry. It is also used to update the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR), the main sampling frame for business surveys conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), with information on the structure of businesses in the UK.

The survey collects employment information from businesses across the whole of the UK economy for each site that they operate. This allows the ONS to produce employee and employment estimates by detailed geography and industry split by full-time/part-time workers and whether the business is public/private.

The ONS produces a number of different measures of employment including Workforce Jobs and the Annual Population Survey/Labour Force Survey. However, BRES is the recommended source of information on employment by detailed geography and industry.

The BRES has two purposes: collecting data to update local unit information and business structures on the IDBR, and producing published annual employment statistics.

The BRES sample does not include Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland data are received direct from the Northern Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETINI) which are used to create UK estimates. The UK Data Archive holds data only for Great Britain.

The BRES replaced the Annual Business Inquiry, Part 1 (ABI/1) in 2009. ABI/1 data for 2009 and earlier are held as part of the Annual Respondents Database under UK Data Archive SN 6644.

Change in sampling from 2015-2016
In 2015, ONS made a strategic decision to include business units with a single PAYE code for which VAT data are available. Prior to 2015, such units were excluded from the sampling frame and therefore not estimated for in ONS outputs. So from January 2016, the coverage of BRES was extended to include a population of solely PAYE based businesses. This improvement in coverage is estimated to have increased the business survey population by around 100,000 businesses, with a total of around 300,000 employment and 200,000 employees between December 2015 and January 2016. The increase in business population has led to an increase in the estimate of employment and employees for the 2015 dataset. Further information is available in documentation file '7463_bres_2015_change_in_firm_sampling.pdf'.

Linking to other business studies
These data contain Inter-Departmental Business Register reference numbers. These are anonymous but unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey sources together. Researchers may consider applying for other business data to assist their research.

For Secure Lab projects applying for access to this study as well as to SN 6697 Business Structure Database and/or SN 7683 Business Structure Database Longitudinal, only postcode-free versions of the data will be made available.

Latest edition information
For the thirteenth edition (February 2024), the 'revised 2021' and 'provisional 2022' data files have been added.

Employees and self-employed, by industry sectors and sex, UK, published quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset is a slimmed down version of the Workplace Employee Relations Survey, 2004: Cross-Section Survey, (WERS) (available at the UKDA under SN 5294). The dataset contains all of the workplaces and employees that participated in the WERS 2004 Cross-Section Survey, but contains only a subset of the data collected in the survey in order to make the dataset more manageable. This subset comprises a selection of the data items collected in the Employee Profile Questionnaire and Management Interview, and a selection of the data items from the Employee Questionnaire. The remaining data items from these components of the survey are excluded, along with all data from the Employee Representative Interview and the Financial Performance Questionnaire. The data from the 1998-2004 Panel Survey are also excluded.

This teaching dataset may prove useful to teachers and students of employment relations, human resource management, industrial sociology and labour economics. It may also prove useful to those teaching or studying survey methods because WERS employs a variable probability sampling design which requires the use of weights in the analysis of the survey data. Finally, it may prove useful to those teaching or studying statistics or econometrics because the employee observations are clustered within workplaces, thus providing opportunities for multi-level analysis.

Further information can be found at the WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service web page.

For the second edition (October 2008), the Survey of Employers and Matched data files have been updated to include weight variables.