Dataset(s): Output per hour worked, UK

Estimates for gross value added (GVA), hours worked and output per hour worked for whole economy and section level industries, as defined by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007. Contains annual and quarterly statistics. Includes estimates for industry quarter-on-quarter, year-on-year and quarter-on-year contributions to whole economy output per hour worked.

Contact:
Productivity team

Release date:
13 November 2025

Next release:
17 February 2026

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Statistics are most often revised for 1 of 2 reasons:

  1. For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
  2. Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.

These types of planned revisions should not be confused with errors in released statistics, which are genuine mistakes. Such mistakes occur rarely and, when they do happen, corrections are made in a timely manner, announced and clearly explained to users in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (Principle 2, Practice 7).

Latest version

xlsx (448.8 kB)

Previous versions

Superseded files Reason for update Date superseded
xlsx (457.3 kB)
Correction See correction
An error has been identified in data used in the Productivity flash estimate and overview, UK: July to September 2025 and April to June 2025 and Productivity flash estimate and overview, UK: April to June 2025 and January to March 2025. The error causes small changes in figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the bulletins released in 14 August 2025 and 13 November 2025. For the latest bulletin: - Figure 4 - In 2025Q1 the decrease (-0.1) in RTI hours worked causes an increase (0.1) in RTI output per worker - Figure 5 - In 2025Q1 the decrease (-0.1) in RTI hours worked causes an increase (0.1) in RTI output per hour - Figure 6 - Small (less than 0.01) changes in contributions - Figure 7 - Corrections to hours growth and OPH growths to all sectors. The error also causes small changes in the datasets Output per hour, Output per hour worked by division, Labour cost labour income and the time series PRDY and UCST released in the 14 August 2025 and 13 November 2025. This error was caused by a processing error. Please contact <productivity@ons.gov.uk> for more information. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
5 December 2025 12:00
xlsx (454.2 kB) Scheduled update/revision 13 November 2025 09:30
xlsx (446.7 kB) Scheduled update/revision 14 August 2025 09:30
xlsx (399.4 kB) Scheduled update/revision 15 May 2025 09:30
xlsx (441.1 kB) Scheduled update/revision 18 February 2025 09:30
xlsx (429.1 kB) Scheduled update/revision 15 November 2024 09:30
xlsx (435.2 kB) Scheduled update/revision 15 August 2024 09:30
xlsx (396.7 kB) Scheduled update/revision 14 May 2024 09:30
xlsx (1.9 MB) Scheduled update/revision 15 February 2024 07:00
xlsx (1.9 MB) Scheduled update/revision 24 October 2023 09:30
xlsx (2.0 MB) Scheduled update/revision 7 July 2023 09:30
xlsx (2.1 MB) Scheduled update/revision 26 April 2023 09:30
xlsx (2.0 MB) Scheduled update/revision 26 January 2023 09:30
xlsx (2.0 MB)
Correction See correction
We are updating our output per hour productivity estimates published as part of the Productivity Overview, UK, April to June 2022. The updated data takes on board reweighted labour force survey data for Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2021 to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2021 which had previously not been picked up by our systems due to a technical issue. Output per hour worked relative to the 2019 average grew by 1.7% and not 1.8% as originally estimated. There are no revisions to the output per job and output per worker datasets.
23 November 2022 16:07
xlsx (2.0 MB) Scheduled update/revision 7 October 2022 09:30
xlsx (2.0 MB) Scheduled update/revision 7 July 2022 09:30
xlsx (1.8 MB)
Correction See correction
We have corrected an error that left some data columns blank unintentionally in several tables. The previous version had no data for SIC division 80-82 on Tables 9-13 and 36-41. It had no data for the market sector on Tables 8, 10, 12, 13, 35, 37, 39, 40 and 41. It had no data for some industries on Tables 50-57. It should have had data for some of these industries, and should have included a note above some tables explaining that some columns were blank intentionally, where data are not available. In particular, data should have been available for SIC division 80-82 on Tables 9-13 and 36-41, and for market sector hours worked on Tables 10 and 37. Data should have been available for SIC divisions 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 and 28 on Tables 52-55. This happened because of a technical fault.
25 April 2022 09:30