There were around 25.6 million full-time workers in the United Kingdom as of the third 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.

There were around 8.6 million part-time workers in the United Kingdom in the third quarter of 2025, compared with a peak of 8.8 million part-time workers in the third quarter of 2019.

39.8% of workers from the Indian ethnic group were in 'professional' jobs in 2021 – the highest percentage out of all ethnic groups in this role.

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.

There were almost 34.2 million people employed in the United Kingdom in the three months to September 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.

National and regional breakdowns of night-time workers by industry groupings, gender, working patterns, age groups, time of day usually worked, place of birth (UK or outside the UK), and whether or not they work from home.

Estimates for gross value added (GVA), workers, and output per worker. Contains annual and quarterly statistics.

Numbers and characteristics of those considered as potential “key workers” in the response to coronavirus (COVID-19), UK. Labour Force Survey and Annual Population Survey.

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

Wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in United Kingdom was reported at 86.58 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United Kingdom - Wage and salaried workers; total (% of total employed) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

Temporary employees: all and part-time, by sex, UK, published quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.

This publication looks at the employment characteristics of Foreign Workers in the United Kingdom. Source agency: Office for National Statistics Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Migrant Workers

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

As of the third quarter of 2025, there were around 4.39 million self-employed workers in the United Kingdom. During this provided time period, self-employment in the UK has grown steadily, from 3.2 million in December 2000 to a peak of over five million at the end of 2019. After the COVID-19 pandemic, however, self-employment has fallen to levels not seen since the middle of 2015 and has struggled to recover to its pre-pandemic peak. Demographics of the self-employed There has consistently been more men self-employed than women in the UK, with recent figures showing that over 2.8 million men and over 1.5 million women were self-employed. As of 2024, the most likely age group to be self-employed were those aged 65 or over, with over a third of workers in this age group self-employed. In the same year, around 16.5 percent of workers in London were self-employed, compared with the UK average of 13.1 percent, making London the region with the highest rate of self-employment in the UK. Self-employment support scheme In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government unveiled various measures to mitigate the economic costs to businesses and individuals. For self-employed workers, this manifested itself as the Self-Employment Income-Support Scheme, which was in its third iteration, or tranche, by December 2020. During the first tranche, which ran from March to July, there were 2.7 million claims made in total, with claims to the second and third tranches numbering 2.4 million and 1.7 million, respectively. As of December 13, 2020, the overall value of these claims amounted to 14.5 billion British pounds.

In 2025, large businesses in the United Kingdom that individually employed 1,000 or more workers collectively employed around 8.3 million people.

Employees receiving job-related training, by sex, UK, published quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.

This is a list of collection provided by the department of UK Visas and Immigration. It includes information about the category of workers they’re licensed to sponsor and their sponsorship rating from 2013 to 26th August, 2022.

Number of people aged 16 years and over in England and Wales who were in employment between 15 March and 21 March 2021 by industry section, taken from Census 2021. Breakdowns are available by region/nation, lower tier local authority, highest qualification, age group, sex, and 3-digit SOC occupation group.