About the data
jobfacts brings together official figures for all 412 occupations in the UK's Standard Occupational Classification (SOC 2020). It is independent: not a government service, and not a recruiter.
Where the figures come from
- Pay
- ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings: gross annual pay for full-time employees. It does not cover the self-employed.
- People in the job, who does it
- ONS Annual Population Survey, a household survey, including the self-employed.
- Job adverts
- ONS online job advert estimates from Textkernel data: new online adverts, not every vacancy. An official statistic in development.
- Demand for workers
- Department for Education and Skills England, Occupations in demand, built from five indicators.
- Skill shortages
- Department for Education, Employer Skills Survey.
- Outlook
- The Skills Imperative 2035, projections for broad groups of jobs.
- Routes in
- National Careers Service job profiles.
- Apprenticeships and qualifications
- Skills England.
- Visas
- Home Office immigration system statistics.
- Skills and interests
- The European Commission's ESCO classification; O*NET, U.S. Department of Labor (CC BY 4.0).
How reliable it is
- Small samples. Survey figures ONS marks as based on a small sample carry a ! marker. Figures too unreliable to use are never shown as a number: the page says there were too few in the survey.
- Withheld data. Where ONS withholds a figure, the page says so. Withheld months break a chart's line rather than dipping to zero.
- Provisional figures. The latest year's pay is provisional, and is revised when ONS publishes the next year's survey.
- Broader groups. Some figures, such as projections and some skill shortages, exist only for a group of related jobs. These are marked Broader group.
Licences and credits
Every source is published under a licence that allows reuse, including commercially, on condition that it is credited. Figures are shown as published, except that some are rounded (pay to the nearest £100), grouped (age bands into ten-year groups) or relabelled for display.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Occupations in demand and the Employer Skills Survey: Department for Education and Skills England. Immigration system statistics: Home Office. Contains public sector information from the National Careers Service licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
© Skills England 2025. This information is licensed under the Open Government Licence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Source: The Skills Imperative 2035 (2024), NFER/Nuffield/DfE/IER/CE.
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
This service includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. This service has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. CC BY 4.0 licence.
jobfacts is independent. It is not part of, affiliated with or endorsed by the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Education, Skills England, the National Careers Service, the Home Office, the European Commission or the U.S. Department of Labor.
No warranty
The figures are provided as published by their sources, without warranty of any kind. They describe occupations across the UK or a region, not any particular job or employer, and are a guide only. Neither jobfacts nor the publishers of the data accept liability for decisions made using them.