Labour Market Indicators
London’s labour markets and skills needs are constantly evolving. This page contains a wide range of London-focused, indicators of labour market demand, providing the most up-to-date coverage of important developments. It brings together a variety of official survey statistics, administrative data and near real-time data, offering high quality information to support the effective planning and delivery of skills provision, and careers advice that better meets London’s economic demands.
Jobs
Workforce Jobs
Office for National Statistics
Updated 3 months ago
Workforce Jobs (WFJ) is a quarterly measure of the number of jobs in the UK and is the preferred measure of the change in jobs by industry.
It is a compound source that draws on a range of employer surveys, household surveys and administrative sources. WFJ is the sum of employee jobs measured primarily by employer surveys, self-employment jobs from…
Employee Jobs by sector
Office for National Statistics
Updated over 1 year ago
Estimates of employee job numbers in London by industrial classification. The data is taken from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), also used to update the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR), the main sampling frame for business surveys conducted by the ONS.
Annual figures, rounded to the nearest 100, for employee jobs in 16 industry aggregate groupings.
BRES covers firms…
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Employee sector Jobs by occupation and highest qualification
Office for National Statistics
Updated over 6 years ago
Estimates of number of jobs by industry sector, occupation and highest qualification of the jobholder. The data is taken from the Annual Population Survey and derived by the Office of National Statistics in response to ad hoc requests: 005357 covers the period 2002 to 2010, 004985 covers the period 2011 to 2014, 005733 covers the year 2015. The data covers…
London Business Survey 2014 - The workforce
Greater London Authority
Added over 11 years ago
The 2014 London Business Survey (LBS) is an innovative survey designed by the Office for National Statistics, on behalf of the London Enterprise Panel and the GLA. The survey collected information from a representative sample of private sector businesses in London in May-July 2014.
This dataset contains information on London’s private sector workforce and recruitment by London businesses corresponding with…
Medium Term Economic Forecast
Greater London Authority
Updated about 2 months ago
London’s Economic Outlook is GLA Economics’ London forecast. The forecasts are issued every six months to assist those preparing planning projections for London in the medium term. The report contains the following:
An overview of recent economic conditions in London, the UK and the world economies with analysis of important events, trends and risks to short and medium-term growth.
The…
London Long Term Labour Market Projections
Greater London Authority
Updated 3 months ago
GLA Economics produces long-term employment projections for London by sector and by borough. The methodology in the accompanying report explains the approach adopted.
The London and sector projections are based on historical trends only so policy changes are not considered. Borough-level (and bespoke areas) projections do take into account an element of existing identified employment capacity but the core trend-based…
Vacancies/ Skills needs
UK employer skills survey
Greater London Authority
Updated over 9 years ago
Industry sector data is presented on reported vacancies, hard-to-fill vacancies (vacancies reported as such by companies), skill-shortage vacancies (vacancies hard to fill due to applicants not having the appropriate skills, qualifications or experience) and density of skills shortages (proportion of skills shortages over all vacancies in occupational group).
The data is collected through the UK Commission for Employment and Skills…
Online Job Postings Analyses
Greater London Authority
Updated about 2 years ago
Introduction
These analyses are based on online job postings data provided by Lightcast. This near real-time data can be used to track and assess the demand for labour in London, though there are some caveats to keep in mind:
Comparisons with publicly available online job postings data indicate that the Lightcast data may be more sensitive to short-term volatility in…
Earnings (workplace)
Earnings by Workplace, Borough
Office for National Statistics
Updated 7 months ago
This dataset provides information about earnings of employees who are working in an area, who are on adult rates and whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.
Tables provided here include total gross weekly earnings, and full time weekly earnings with breakdowns by gender, and annual median, mean and lower quartile earnings by borough and UK…
Earnings by gender, and full-time/part-time
Office for National Statistics
Updated 7 months ago
This dataset provides information about earnings of employees who are working in an area, who are on adult rates and whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. Tables provided here include total hourly earnings (excluding overtime), with breakdowns by gender, and full-time/part-time status, with median, mean and earnings distribution for the London region. These are provided…
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Earnings by gender and fulltime and part time Earnings by industry and occupation
Office for National Statistics
Updated over 9 years ago
The ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) provides data on average levels and the distribution of earnings and hours worked for UK employees by detailed occupation (1- to 4-digit SOC categories), and industry sector (1- and 2-digit SIC category) annually. Data is available from the ONS website at regional level.
Gross Value Added and Gross Disposable Household Income
Office for National Statistics
Updated over 10 years ago
Official statistics showing annual estimates of NUTS3 regional Gross Value Added (GVA) and Gross disposable household Income (GDHI). Tables show estimates of total GVA, GVA per head, GVA per head index, Gross disposable household Income (GDHI) and GDHI per head at current basic prices.
Gross Value Added (GVA) (Income Approach) estimates at current prices for the years since 1997 for…
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GVA-GDHI-nuts3-regions-uk.xlsThe GLA Economics team also provides expert analysis and guidance on London’s labour market by examining recent developments. Our publications are available at: www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/research-and-analysis/economy-and-employment/labour-market.
Other relevant indicators on the supply of labour in London are available on the Datastore at: https://data.london.gov.uk/labour-market-indicators/labour-supply/