Summary

The Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed geography and industry, for regions and some local authorities.

Publications

• Employees in Great Britain by industry: 2023

  Number of employees in Great Britain, full-time and part-time by industry. Provisional results for Great Britain 2023 and revised results for the UK 2022. Data from the Business Register and Employment Survey.

• Employees in Great Britain by region: 2023

  Number of employees in Great Britain, full-time and part-time, by country and English region, including some local authority districts. Provisional results for Great Britain 2023, revised results for UK 2022. Data from the Business Register and Employment Survey.

• Employees in Great Britain: 2023

  Number of employees in Great Britain, full-time and part-time by sector, industry, country and English region. Provisional results for Great Britain 2023 and revised results for the UK 2022. Data from the Business Register and Employment Survey.

Data

• Local authority county – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 5

  Annual employee and employment estimates for the UK split by local authority county. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Local authority district – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 6

  Annual employee and employment estimates for the UK split by local authority district. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Broad Industry Group (Standard Industrial Classification) – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 1

  Annual employee and employment estimates for Great Britain and UK split by broad industry group Standard Industrial Classification: SIC 2007. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Industry (two, three and five-digit Standard Industrial Classification) – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 2

  Annual employee and employment estimates for Great Britain and UK split by two, three and five-digit Standard Industrial Classification: SIC 2007. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Region by broad industry group (Standard Industrial Classification) – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 4

  Annual employee and employment estimates for the UK split by region and broad industry group Standard Industrial Classification: SIC 2007. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Region – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 3

  Annual employee and employment estimates for Great Britain and UK split by region. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

Contact details

Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   17 October 2024 9:30am

   Reason for change

   The Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) estimates are derived from data collected separately by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics Research Agency (NISRA), to provide complete coverage of employee and employment estimates across the United Kingdom. As it has not now proved possible to have Northern Ireland estimates for 2023 ready in time for the 4 November 2024 release, it has been decided to release the 2023 provisional estimates as Great Britain only. We plan to update our release with UK estimates by early 2025.

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