Labour market analysis: the UK

What the job adverts show, month by month: which occupations are being advertised and what they offer to pay, measured from 1 analysis of our own data.

Market analysis
What Britain is advertising, while official vacancies fall

ONS put UK vacancies at 707,000 in May–July 2026, down 0.8%. Our own index of 201,787 live adverts shows which occupations carry them and what those jobs advertise as pay, with the sample size behind every figure.
30 August 2026