Number of job vacancies in the UK 2024, by industry

Published by D. Clark, Mar 11, 2025

As of the fourth quarter of 2024, there were estimated to be 142,000 job vacancies in the human health and social work activities industry sector in the United Kingdom, the most of any industry. The sector with the fewest number of job vacancies in this month was mining and quarrying, with only two thousand estimated vacancies.

Number of job vacancies in the United Kingdom as of 4th quarter 2024, by industry (in 1,000s)

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February 2025

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

Q4 2024

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This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

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