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SAP – UK Tech Labour Market Trends Report, April 2025
SAP talent demand surges across Europe ahead of the 2027 ECC deadline, with consulting roles booming—despite a UK hiring dip.
North West – UK Regional Labour Market Trends, March 2025
Britain’s fiscal policies in late 2024 reshaped regional labour markets, with sectors like real estate, property, and digital expanding, while IT and engineering saw declines. Regional disparities widened, with London thriving, while areas like the North West faced hiring challenges, particularly in the financial sector.
Employment – UK Legal Labour Market Trends, March 2025
Employment law hiring saw sharp contrasts in 2024, with leading firms significantly expanding recruitment to meet rising demand, while others scaled back amid declining legal aid and fewer trade union disputes.
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City A.M.: Hiring for bankers reaches three-year high
City A.M. features Vacancysoft and Morgan McKinley data in a story about how hiring for bankers is at a three-year high in the United Kingdom. Read the full article here.
Business News Wales: Just 9% of new hires in edtech are academics
Vacancysoft and Robert Walters labour market data in Business News Wales shows how just 9% of new edtech hires are academics. Read the full article here.
City A.M.: Hiring for lawyers at highest since pre-pandemic
Vacancysoft’s labour market data features in a story in City A.M. about how hiring for lawyers is at its highest since before the pandemic. Read the full article here.
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Public Sector Headcount grows by 5% YOY
The revision by the OECD that Britain’s GDP growth for next year will be higher than initially thought will be welcome news to Rachel Reeves and Kier Starmer. Indeed, the increase has been from 0.4% when forecast in May, to 1.1% now. At a time when the Government are facing acrimony over their budget, and business confidence is deteriorating, it is important to understand though, that the reason why the forecast has been lifted is due to the planned investments into the public sector.
Business Optimism falls for the fourth consecutive month
The latest report from the Institute of Directors is out, and the findings show business confidence in the wider UK economy to close to its record low, in April 2020 (-69) at the onset of the Covid pandemic, and marks the second lowest reading of the Index since it began in July 2016. Just as importantly, the study has asked business leaders how they were expecting to be affected by and responding to the changes in employer National Insurance.
COP 29, Climate Change and Cleantech
When the Labour Party came to power, nowhere was the immediate policy shift more stark than in terms of environmental policy. Under Sunak, drilling licenses in the North Sea had been extended, and while the Government had said all the right things in regards to environmental policy, the results were mixed.
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National 2021 Review: Vacancies reach all-time high as London dominates labour market with record 20k+ new jobs
New jobs in the UK reached record levels in 2021, with the TMT sector accounting for the most new vacancies in a year when remote working became the norm across British business, according to APSCo and Vacancysoft. Read the report now.
Record job growth in Irish life sciences driven by surge in biotech vacancies
Ireland’s life sciences industry is enjoying a record year of recruitment as it recovers from the effects of the pandemic and strengthens its reputation as a global pharmaceutical hub, according to new research.
London law firms in hiring surge with Clifford Chance leading pack
London’s legal firms went on an unprecedented hiring spree in 2021, with the number of fixed-term contract (FTC) roles in the capital also reaching all-time highs, new research shows.
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