Job vacancies update - 10-Jul-2009

Your regular amateur analysis of the UK's job vacancies scene from ground-breaking attack blog illandancient.

Total vacancies in the UK 401,819
Up 1.89% from last week
Down 0.16% from last month
Down -1.48% from last quarter

Here's your regular graph showing how many job vacancies are listed on reed.co.uk, The Guardian's Jobs pages and the Job Centre Plus. A wee caveat about the JCP and The Guardian is that the total jobs listed on their sites are updated in real time, so it varies depending on the time of day, contrast this with Reed who update their total daily.

Based on Gordon Brown saying there was 500,000 job vacancies in PMQs back in February, we can look at how the number of vacancies on the job sites have varied and we extrapolate it up to a total figure for vacancies in the UK.

Graph a little too messy for you? Try this one of monthly averages.


Its about the same as last month, again.

Here's a look at the breakdown of sectors on reed.co.uk, which ones have grown and shrunk compared to a month ago:-

Manufacturing 18%
FMCG 14%
Banking 12%
Transport and logistics 11%
Motoring and Automotive 10%
Human Resources 8%
Hospitality 6%
IT Contractor 5%
Legal 5%
Public Sector 4%
Construction and Property 4%
Health 3%
Management 2%
Admin 1%
Financial Services 1%
Sales 1%
Actuarial 0%
Customer Service 0%
Marketing and PR 0%
Retail 0%
General Insurance -1%
Social Care -1%
Accountancy Qualified -2%
Media, Digital and Creative -3%
Scientific -4%
Purchasing -5%
Recruitment Consultancy -5%
Temporary Work -6%
Education -6%
IT and Telecoms -7%
Graduate -8%
Engineering -8%
Multilingual -10%
Strategy and consultancy -15%
Charity and Voluntary -17%
Accountancy -19%
Leisure and tourism -21%
Training -23%

That's it for this week. Good luck with the job hunting.