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  • Estimating employment and business in small or bespoke areas - Official statistics on jobs and businesses are rarely available at small or special geographies such as high streets. GLA Economics has developed new methods to apportion ONS employment and business counts to these areas using commercial land area and total floorspace. (Published October 2026)

  • London's Local Skills Improvement Plan 2026-2029: Ensuring that the capital's skills system meets the needs of London's jobseekers, employees and businesses - The 2nd Local Skills Improvement Plan for London, covering the period 2026-2029,  was launched in July 2026. The plan is focused on a system-wide change to improve the “matching between training provision and employer demand, boosting pay, productivity, and workforce inclusion across the capital, addressing skills gaps and ensuring businesses have the skills they need to grow”. To support the refresh of the plan, GLA Economics produced an updated evidence base to set out the trends in London’s labour market and skills landscape since the previous plan which was published in 2023. (Published August 2026)

  • Payrolled employments by nationality – This briefing shows the number and share of payrolled employments held by UK, EU and Rest of World nationals living in London from July 2014 to December 2025, based on the HM Revenue and Customs Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Migrant Worker Scan data. (Published June 2026)

  • Green jobs and skills in London - Data from the ONS published estimates of Green jobs in the UK in 2024, finds that nearly half of all Londoners (46%) would be interested in training in order to take up a ‘green’ job. Around 12% of working adults in London described any part of their main job as ‘green’, with one-in-three of those workers ‘always’ or ‘often’ undertaking green activities. The data also provides insights into who wants a ‘green job’ in the future, with 51% of Londoners being very or somewhat interested. The release also covers 2 other datasets, the green economy –jobs in green industries, and jobs in low- and high-emission sectors. (Published May 2026)

  • Rising unemployment and widening inequalities – This report examines how rising unemployment in London is affecting different groups and communities across the capital. It shows that unemployment has become increasingly concentrated in medium- and long-term joblessness, while opportunities to move between jobs have weakened sharply since 2024. The analysis highlights that traditionally disadvantaged groups, including disabled Londoners, younger people and Black and racially minoritised communities, face both higher unemployment rates and longer periods out of work. Overall, the findings point to a labour market that has weakened significantly since the post-pandemic recovery. (Published May 2026)

  • London’s workforce exposure to generative artificial intelligence – This report examines London’s exposure to generative AI (GenAI) across its different occupations, industries and communities. While it does not offer a definitive view on where jobs are going to be lost or gained, it does provide a rigorous, evidence-based picture of where change is most likely to be felt first. It shows clearly that London’s workforce is more exposed to GenAI than any other region in the UK, not because it is weaker, but because London’s economy is rich in the knowledge intensive work where GenAI’s capabilities are advancing fastest. (Published April 2026)

  • London labour market projections report - GLA Economics has regularly updated trend-based long-term employment projections to inform policy making and city planning in London. This 2024-based update forms part of the evidence base for the forthcoming London Plan and builds on the 2017 and 2022 projections. This report presents estimates of the number of jobs in London from 2025 to 2050, broken down by industry sector and by local authority. It presents a central (baseline) projection, sensitivity scenarios, and comparisons with alternative estimates to support interpretation. (Published March 2026)

  • Unemployment in key charts: Young Londoners hit hardest by labour market slowdown – London Datastore – Evidence suggests that London’s labour market has weakened over the past two years, with unemployment rising to levels not seen for more than a decade and jobs growth turning negative. These Labour Force Survey data are affected by ongoing quality challenges. But other data also point to broad-based pressures in the labour market – with those pressures appearing earlier, and becoming more acute, for young people. These trends reinforce concerns about the labour market prospects of young Londoners but also underline the importance of cyclical labour market weakness. (Published March 2026)

  • Borough-by-Sector employee jobs series – a dataset providing experimental estimates of borough-by-sector employee jobs in London. It provides a time series consistent with ONS Workforce Jobs data where this would not otherwise be available (Most recent updated February 2026)

  • More detailed jobs – an annual dataset on the number of employees by specific industry in London. (Most recently updated December 2025)

  • The impact of motherhood on earnings and employment – Gender inequalities in the UK and London labour markets are large. Recent data show that women living in London are around 10 percentage points less likely to be in work than men; and earn on average 19% less per hour than men. The ONS has published data tables showing how the motherhood penalty affects different socio-economic groups, and how it varies by region of residence. This blog highlights two key findings for London. (Published October 2025)

  • Inequalities in the London labour market – This report provides the analysis and data that supports the GLA Workforce Integration Network (WIN) briefing note, ‘Bridging the Gap – The Economic Case for Workforce Diversity in London’. (Published October 2025)

  • In-work poverty in London – This work looks at in-work poverty in London between 1996 and 2023. It provides an overview of the links between working-age poverty and employment participation at the individual and household levels in the capital. (Published March 2025)

  • Labour Market Analysis of London’s Priority Sectors – analysis of the Mayor of London’s priority sectors, as identified in the Local Skills Improvement Plan (construction, digital, health & social care and hospitality). (Published March 2025)

  • Long-term sickness and the labour market – Post-pandemic concerns about rising rates of long-term sickness among working-age people have been recognised across the UK. But how severe is this issue in London and who is most affected? GLA Economics has published a new working paper that provides up-to-date analysis and data. (Published February 2025)

  • Apprenticeship statistics for London – an analysis of apprenticeship take-up in London in 2022/23.

  • London Learner Survey dashboard – survey on learners participating in adult education provided by the GLA in 2021/22.

  • Quality of jobs for London workers – analysis of ONS Job Quality indicators for 2021 with a focus on how outcomes for Londoners differ from those in the rest of the UK.

  • Online Job Postings quarterly update – data used to track and assess the demand for labour in London, available for July 2022 to May 2024

  • Economic inactivity trends

  • Out-of-work Londoners