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We partner with leading recruitment firms to produce thought leadership reports highlighting key labour market trends.
Risk & Compliance – UK Finance Labour Market Trends Report, October 2023
Looking at 2023, there has been a significant decline in hiring across the risk & compliance functions. Nonetheless, the real story emerging is how these functions are becoming an ever greater department within fintech, according to the latest UK Finance Labour Market trends report by Morgan McKinley and market data analysts Vacancysoft.
Clinical – UK Life Sciences Labour Market Trends, November 2023
While 2023 has seen significantly lower levels of recruitment for clinical-specific functions, the forecast for 2024 is bullish, with the immediate projection being for two times more clinical vacancies in 2024 than in 2023.
E-Commerce – UK Tech Labour Market Trends, November 2023
As Europe’s most advanced e-commerce market, the UK has approximately 60 million e-commerce users. With that, shopping online has become the norm, which has had implications for retailers on the high street, especially outside of main shopping hubs, where the pandemic period had resulted in a significant surge in activity. Now, post-pandemic, there has been a slowdown as the market has normalized, which has meant that when looking at e-commerce, there has been a drop of 42.5% in IT vacancies compared to 2022, according to the latest UK Tech Report by Talent Alpha and Vacancysoft.
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Vacancysoft & APSCO Report Featured In The Global Recruiter
We are delighted to announce that the Regional Trends Report – 2018 in Review we published together with Apsco has been featured in the Global Recruiter magazine. Please see the following link for the full article. Get a copy of this report here. Every day...
Agency roles boom as businesses outsource marketing functions
Agency roles boom as businesses outsource marketing functions Marketing roles within agencies increased 35% year-on-year to March 2018, according to the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo), as organisations increasingly look towards...
Vacancysoft & APSCo Report featured in European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Magazine
We are delighted to announce that the Pharmaceuticals Trends Report we published together with APSCo has been featured in European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Magazine. – See the full article ‘UK biotech booming with increased job openings, notes recruitment data’...
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Direct Line in 2023 leads the way
Direct Line is a company we are recommending keeping an eye on in 2024, after they recorded a 71% increase in vacancies from 2023 compared to 2022.

Surge in Tech sector as London picks up speed
It’s official. The green shoots of recovery in the technology industry are emerging. This past week vacancies hit levels only seen previously a handful of times in the past year. After a challenging 2023, where VC/PE funding became significantly harder to obtain (TMT deals fell 24% on the year before, to the lowest levels in five years) looking ahead, the signs are positive and London in particular is picking the pace.

Are you ready for 2024?
Looking ahead we are forecasting a fast start to the year, with Q1 projected to be the busiest business quarter of the year in terms of new vacancies.
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