Employee numbers by occupation

Release date:
7 October 2016

You asked:

Would you be able to give me the relative numbers in the UK of:

  • Barristers
  • Solicitors
  • Legal Executives
  • Patent Attorneys

We said:

Estimates of the number of people in employment by occupation are available from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), which is a survey of people resident in households.

Estimates relating to the occupations listed can be found on the ONS website in table EMP04 found in the link below:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/employmentbyoccupationemp04

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