Thought Leadership
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We partner with leading recruitment firms to produce thought leadership reports highlighting key labour market trends.
AI Disruption UK Market – UK Tech Labour Market Trends, September 2025
This report analyses how AI is driving one of the few areas of growth in the UK labour market, with IT and data hiring accelerating even as wider recruitment slows. It explores how major tech and banking firms are investing aggressively in AI capability, while retail and professional services rapidly follow suit — reshaping job roles, skill demands and the competitive landscape across the country.
North – UK Regional Labour Market Trends, October 2025
This report analyses professional hiring trends across Northern England as the regional market enters a recovery phase, with vacancies up 6.9% year on year. It highlights how construction, retail, and digital transformation are driving renewed growth in the North East, North West, and Yorkshire, while banking remains under pressure amid sector consolidation.
Clinical – UK Life Sciences Labour Market Trends, October 2025
This report examines Europe’s clinical research labour market as it stabilises following a turbulent 2024, with overall hiring projected to rise modestly by 0.4%. It explores how CROs and biotech firms are driving recovery, supported by regulatory clarity and renewed investor confidence, while pharmaceutical companies adopt a more selective, efficiency-focused hiring approach.
Quick insights on hiring trends, industry shifts, and key sector developments to keep you informed in today’s dynamic job market.
Risk & Compliance Snapshot
Stay informed with the latest insights on labour market shifts, hiring patterns, and industry-specific analytics. Our Snapshots highlight key developments across multiple sectors, helping you navigate the evolving recruitment landscape.
Life Sciences Snapshot
Stay informed with the latest insights on labour market shifts, hiring patterns, and industry-specific analytics. Our Snapshots highlight key developments across multiple sectors, helping you navigate the evolving recruitment landscape.
Fintech Snapshot
Stay informed with the latest insights on labour market shifts, hiring patterns, and industry-specific analytics. Our Snapshots highlight key developments across multiple sectors, helping you navigate the evolving recruitment landscape.
UKTN: IT job vacancies surpass pre-pandemic levels in the UK
UKTN published a story using Vacancysoft data on how IT job vacancies in England and Wales surpassed pre-pandemic levels in a sign of the UK’s recovery. Read the article here.
Business Leader: Tech roles in UK set to surpass pre-pandemic levels
The Business Leader published a story using Vacancysoft data on how tech jobs in England and Wales reached record levels in 2021. Read the full article here.
Evening Standard: Job vacancies double in London as tech boom continues
The Evening Standard published a story using Vacancysoft data on how tech vacancies in London have more than doubled to a record high. Read the full article here.
Our CEO, James Chaplin, provides insight into business, operations and thought leadership at Vacancysoft.
Minsky Paradox: Calm Before Financial Chaos
As stablecoins grow and global trade shifts toward China, the US faces renewed pressure on the dollar. With the Triffin Dilemma and Minsky Paradox resurfacing, could digital money and geopolitical tensions trigger a tipping point for dollar dominance?
Rolling the dice on Financial Services deregulation
UK GDP is sliding, costs rising, welfare & labour gaps widening. With FDI at lows and firms wary of new rules, can Reeves’ Leeds reforms reignite growth?
AI’s Coming Power Surge
The UK faces a growing energy gap as domestic production declines and demand surges, driven by AI and the digital economy. With aging infrastructure and unreliable renewables, nuclear is back in focus, but can SMRs scale fast enough? A long-term strategy is no longer optional.
Our partners in the recruitment industry share their thought leadership insights, advice, and best practices.
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Read the latest news on the recruitment and staffing industry through stories powered by Vacancysoft’s labour market data, analysis and our thought leadership pieces.
UK accounts for most clinical vacancies across European life sciences, dominating CRO and pharmaceutical sector recruitment — new report
Vacancies in the UK’s architectural practices are on the rebound after suffering a big setback during the first year of the pandemic — however, they are yet to reach the recruitment levels seen in 2019, according to a new report.
IT jobs in lawtech rise across UK as funding grows and legal industry embraces innovative digital solutions post-pandemic — new report
Vacancies in the UK’s architectural practices are on the rebound after suffering a big setback during the first year of the pandemic — however, they are yet to reach the recruitment levels seen in 2019, according to a new report.
Surge in work-from-anywhere tax accountant jobs in UK as total vacancies level off following record year — new report
Vacancies in the UK’s architectural practices are on the rebound after suffering a big setback during the first year of the pandemic — however, they are yet to reach the recruitment levels seen in 2019, according to a new report.
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