Data set from Employer Skills Survey

Vacancy measures by occupational group

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Published 30 March 2023

Last updated 30 March 2023

The total number of vacancies and establishments with at least one vacancy at 4 digit SOC level, number of hard to fill and skill-shortage vacancies, as well as hard to fill and skill-shortage vacancy density in 2019. Indicators can be broken down by UK nation, occupational group and sector.

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Data set details

• Theme: UK education and training statistics
• Publication: Employer Skills Survey
• Release: Calendar year 2019
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number of establishments with at least one vacancy at the 4 digit SOC level
  • Number of vacancies
  • Number of hard to fill vacancies
• Filters:
  • 1 digit SOC code and name
  • 2 digit SOC code and name
  • 3 digit SOC code and name
• Time period: 2019

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

country_name	sector	soc_4_labelled	soc_3_labelled	soc_2_labelled	soc_1_labelled	sample_estab_w_vac_for_x_occ	vac_sum	htfv_sum	ssv_sum	htfv_den	ssv_den	country_code	time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level
England	Arts & Other Services	1115 - Chief executives and senior officials	111 - Chief executives and senior officials	11 - Corporate managers and directors	1 - Managers, directors and senior officials	c	u	u	u	u	u	E92000001	2019	Calendar year	National
England	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	E92000001	2019	Calendar year	National
England	Arts & Other Services	1131 - Financial managers and directors	113 - Functional managers and directors	11 - Corporate managers and directors	1 - Managers, directors and senior officials	5	u	u	u	u	u	E92000001	2019	Calendar year	National
England	Arts & Other Services	1133 - Purchasing 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	E92000001	2019	Calendar year	National
England	Arts & Other Services	1135 - Human resource 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	E92000001	2019	Calendar year	National

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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_estab_w_vac_for_x_occ	Number of establishments with at least one vacancy at the 4 digit SOC level
sector	Sector - Filter by sector
soc_1_labelled	1 digit SOC code and name - Filter by 1 digit SOC code (SOC2010)

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Footnotes

1. The sum of vacancies by occupation is slightly lower than the total number of vacancies shown in the core indicator file. (This is also the case for hard-to-fill and skill-shortage vacancies.) This is because the survey only collects detailed information on up to 6 different occupations per establishment, in order to prevent excessively long interviews. If the intention is to show the total number of vacancies, use the core indicator file.
2. For some vacancies, there is insufficient information from respondents to code a particular occupation (i.e. a 4 digit SOC code). In these cases, the vacancy is shown as 'not codeable to this level of SOC'. The vacancies are shown at a higher levels of occupational aggregation (e.g. a 3, 2 or 1 digit SOC code) where there is enough information to allow this.

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