Data set from Employer Skills Survey

Vacancy measures by occupational group (SOC2020)

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Published 24 July 2025

Last updated 24 July 2025

Covers number of vacancies, hard to fill vacancies and skill-shortage vacancies, skill-shortage vacancy density and hard to fill vacancy density, by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2020. Indicators can be broken down by country and sector.

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Data set details

• Theme: UK education and training statistics
• Publication: Employer Skills Survey
• Release: Calendar year 2024
• Number of rows: 178,873
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number of vacancies
  • Number of hard to fill vacancies
  • Number of skill-shortage vacancies
• Filters:
  • 1 digit SOC2020 code and name
  • 2 digit SOC2020 code and name
  • 3 digit SOC2020 code and name
• Time period: 2022 to 2024

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

country_name	country_code	geographic_level	time_period	time_identifier	sector	soc2020_4_labelled	soc2020_3_labelled	soc2020_2_labelled	soc2020_1_labelled	sample_occupations_site_has_vacancy	vac_sum	htfv_sum	ssv_sum	htfv_den	ssv_den
England	E92000001	National	2022	Calendar year	Arts & Other Services	1111 - Chief executives and senior officials	111 - Chief executives and senior officials	11 - Corporate managers and directors	1 - Managers, directors and senior officials	5	u	u	u	u	u
England	E92000001	National	2022	Calendar year	Arts & Other Services	1112 - Elected officers and representatives	111 - Chief executives and senior officials	11 - Corporate managers and directors	1 - Managers, directors and senior officials	c	u	u	u	u	u
England	E92000001	National	2022	Calendar year	Arts & Other Services	1121 - Production managers and directors in manufacturing	112 - Production managers and directors	11 - Corporate managers and directors	1 - Managers, directors and senior officials	c	u	u	u	u	u
England	E92000001	National	2022	Calendar year	Arts & Other Services	1122 - Production managers and directors in construction	112 - Production managers and directors	11 - Corporate managers and directors	1 - Managers, directors and senior officials	c	u	u	u	u	u
England	E92000001	National	2022	Calendar year	Arts & Other Services	1131 - Financial managers and directors	113 - Functional managers and directors	11 - Corporate managers and directors	1 - Managers, directors and senior officials	c	u	u	u	u	u

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 11 variables

Variable name	Variable description
htfv_den	Hard to fill vacancy density (as a percentage of vacancies for the SOC code)
htfv_sum	Number of hard to fill vacancies
sample_occupations_site_has_vacancy	Number of occupations for which sites had at least one vacancy in the specific SOC code
sector	Sector - Filter by sector
soc2020_1_labelled	1 digit SOC2020 code and name - Filter by 1 digit SOC code (SOC2020)

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