Employment and employee types

Employment rates show the number of people in paid work as a proportion of the population, broken down by age and sex. Includes information on the number of people in employment and vacancies.

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Employment rate (aged 16 to 64, seasonally adjusted): %

UK: Aged 16-64

75 %

2025 JAN-MAR

Release date:: 13 May 2025
Next release:: 10 June 2025

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Labour market overview, UK: May 2025

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Estimates for payrolled employees in the UK decreased by 47,000 (0.2%) between February and March 2025 and fell by 63,000 (0.2%) between March 2024 and March 2025.
Payrolled employees fell by 53,000 (0.2%) over the quarter and fell by 4,000 (0.0%) over the year, when looking at January to March 2025. This is the period comparable with our Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates.
The early estimate of payrolled employees for April 2025 decreased by 33,000 (0.1%) on the month and decreased by 106,000 (0.3%) on the year to 30.3 million. The April 2025 estimate should be treated as a provisional estimate and is likely to be revised when more data are received next month.

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Employment rate (aged 16 to 64, seasonally adjusted): %

UK: Aged 16-64

75 % 2025 JAN-MAR

Release date:

13 May 2025

Next release:

10 June 2025
Number of People in Employment (aged 16 and over, seasonally adjusted):000s

UK: Aged 16 and over

33,975 000's 2025 JAN-MAR

Release date:

13 May 2025

Next release:

10 June 2025
Female employment rate (aged 16 to 64, seasonally adjusted): %

UK: Aged 16-64

72 % 2025 JAN-MAR

Release date:

13 May 2025

Next release:

10 June 2025
Male employment rate (aged 16 to 64, seasonally adjusted): %

UK: Aged 16-64

78.1 % 2025 JAN-MAR

Release date:

13 May 2025

Next release:

10 June 2025
UK Job Vacancies (thousands) - Total Services

670 2025 FEB-APR

Release date:

13 May 2025

Next release:

10 June 2025

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Datasets related to Employment and employee types

EMP02: Public and private sector employment

Public and private sector employment, UK, published quarterly, seasonally adjusted.
HOUR01 SA: Actual weekly hours worked (seasonally adjusted)

Actual weekly hours worked including by sex, full-time, part-time and second jobs, UK, rolling three-monthly figures published monthly, seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.
CLA03: Claimant Count revisions triangle

Claimant Count revisions triangle, published monthly. These are official statistics in development.
RED01 NSA: Redundancies levels and rates (not seasonally adjusted)

Number of people (levels), men and women made redundant and redundancy rates, not seasonally adjusted. These estimates are sourced from the Labour Force Survey, a survey of households. These are official statistics in development.
A10: International comparisons of employment and unemployment rates

International comparisons of employment, unemployment and economic inactivity, published monthly. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
EARN01: Average weekly earnings

Average weekly earnings at sector level headline estimates, Great Britain, monthly, seasonally adjusted. Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey.

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Estimates of employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for the UK.
Vacancies and jobs in the UK: May 2025

Estimates of the number of vacancies and jobs for the UK.
Working and workless households in the UK: October to December 2024

The economic status of households in the UK and the people living in them, where at least one person is aged 16 to 64 years. Taken from the Labour Force Survey.
Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK: May 2025

Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data. This is a joint release between HMRC and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). These are official statistics in development.

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