There were over 34.1 million people employed in the United Kingdom in the three months to May 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 that 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.

In 2024, large businesses in the United Kingdom that individually employed 1,000 or more workers collectively employed around 8.2 million people.

In the fiscal period that ended December 31, 2023, Google UK Limited's average number of employees was 7,442 employees. This was a slight increase compared to the previous reporting period ending December 31, 2022, where 7,005 individuals were reported to have had worked for the company in the UK.

There were around 25.4 million full-time workers in the United Kingdom as of the first quarter of 2025. Compared with 2000, there has been a net increase of around five million full-time workers in the UK, despite a significant dip in full-time employment between 2008 and 2010.

Vodafone employed about 9,640 people in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2024, over three hundred more employees than in the previous year.Snapshot: Vodafone in the United Kingdom Vodafone holds a well-established position at the top of the UK’s telecommunications market. From 2014 to 2016 the company increased overall revenues, eventually generating 8.43 billion British pounds in 2016. However, from 2017 to 2024, Vodafone UK's revenue has been fluctuating, having reached about 6.8 billion British pounds by 2024. The average revenue per mobile user (ARPU) has also decreased in previous years, falling from 15.4 in Q1 2023/24 to 14.5 British pounds per customer in Q1 2024/25. The contract churn rate stood at 13.4 percent in Q1 2024/25. Vodafone around the world    The number of Vodafone employees in the UK has fallen year-on-year since 2016 when they had around 13.3 thousand employees. In countries other than the UK, the number of people employed by the telecommunications giant decreased from 105,870 in 2017 to just over 96 thousand in 2024, but has since slowly increased again. Germany stood out as a top earning country, generating roughly 13 billion euros during FY 2024, over six billion euros more than the UK. Globally, the company’s operating profit reached about 36.72 billion euros in 2024.

In the first quarter of 2025, there were approximately 27.9 million people working in the private sector of the United Kingdom, compared with 21.9 million in 2000.

This statistic displays the number of individuals employed by Facebook UK in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2019. The number of employees based in the UK has increased significantly since 2011, reaching an average of ***** employees monthly in 2019.

Compass Group had by far the highest number of global employees among companies based in the United Kingdom as of 2025, at approximately 500,000 employees. Tesco had the second-highest number of employees at around 336,400, followed by HSBC Holdings which had 211,000 employees. In the same year, HSBC Holdings had an annual revenue of 142.3 billion U.S. dollars, the third-highest among UK-based companies. The oil and gas giant Shell had the highest annual revenue at over 283 billion dollars, ahead of BP at 189 billion dollars. How many businesses are there in the UK? In 2024, there were approximately 5.5 million business enterprises in the UK, down from a peak of 5.98 million in 2020. Although there were just 1,930 large firms that employed 1,000 people or more, these firms employed more than a quarter of the UK's private sector workforce, and made a combined turnover of approximately 1.69 trillion British pounds. As of this year, the construction industry had the highest number of enterprises by sector, at over 870,000. The sector with the most workers was that of wholesale and retail, which collectively employed just under 4.9 million people in 2024, and also had the highest turnover compared to other sectors, at over 1.8 trillion pounds. Current UK economic climate Although the UK economy is expected to grow in 2025, growth has been downgraded from earlier forecasts, while inflation and unemployment are expected to be higher than initially thought. According to the business confidence index, sentiment among businesses at the end of 2024 was lower than it has been since early 2021. Furthermore, since the start of 2025, businesses have been shedding jobs at an accelerating rate, possibly due to recent tax rises, which was seen as the main external concern of businesses in early 2025. The precarious state of the UK's government finances, and potential tax rises in the next budget, are also likely feeding into this pessimistic mood.

The average number of people employed annually by Aviva Plc worldwide decreased overall between 2013 and 2023 albeit with some fluctuation. Aviva Plc is a multinational life insurance group based in the United Kingdom. The number of people employed by the company on average also includes directors under a service contract. There were ****** employees working for Aviva Plc around the world in 2023 - an increase of nearly ***** employees from the previous year.

In June 2025, there were approximately 30.3 million employees on payrolls in the United Kingdom, a decrease of around over 40,000 compared with the previous month.

As of 2024, over 4.2 million people in the United Kingdom were on flextime employment contracts, compared with 3.22 million in 2013. Flextime work enables employees to choose when they start and finish workdays, provided they are within the parameters set by their employers.

The National Health Service (NHS) had around 2.06 million employees as of the first quarter of 2025, making it the largest public sector employer in the United Kingdom. In the same quarter, 1.66 million people worked in education, the second-largest industry in terms of public sector employees.

In 2015, the number of employees in the ICT services industry in the United Kingdom increased by 113,068 employees (+12.32 percent) since 2013. Therefore, the number of employees in the United Kingdom reached a peak in 2015 with 1,030,521 employees. Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.

There were around 6.15 million people employed in the public sector in the United Kingdom as of the first quarter of 2025, compared with 6.46 million in late 2009, which was the peak for public sector employment during the provided time period.

Most people employed in the AI field in the UK are employed in the product making aspect of AI. *** of the ****** employees in the AI companies work on product making. Only a bit over ************************ work in infrastructure making.

There were approximately 88,000 employees on job-sharing contracts in the United Kingdom in 2024, compared with 103,000 in 2023. This type of contract, where two part-time workers perform the work of one full-time person, has seen a net decrease of around 97,000 when compared with 2013.

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Amazon UK Services Ltd. is responsible for Amazon's logistics and fulfilment operations in the United Kingdom (UK). in the financial year ending December 31, 2023, the company employed roughly 60,000 people throughout its warehousing and logistics workforce in the UK.

The number of employees in the information sector in the United Kingdom decreased to 303.84 thousand employees since the previous year. This decrease was preceded by an increase in number of employees in this industry.Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.

In 2024, around 4.23 million employees in the United Kingdom had employment contracts that allowed for flexible working hours, making it the most common flexible working practice in that year. The second-most prevalent type of flexible arrangement was an annualized hours contract, whereby an employee works a specified number of hours over a year, instead of working the same hours every week or month. There were approximately 88,000 employees on contracts that involved job-sharing, making it the least common type of flexible working contract.