Data set from Employer Skills Survey

Vacancy measures by occupational group

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Published 28 September 2023

Last updated 28 September 2023

Total number of vacancies, hard to fill vacancies and skill-shortage vacancies, as well as skill-shortage vacancy density and hard to fill vacancy density, by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). Indicators can be broken down by UK nation and sector.

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Data set details

• Theme: UK education and training statistics
• Publication: Employer Skills Survey
• Release: Calendar year 2022
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number of vacancies
  • Number of hard to fill vacancies
  • Number of skill-shortage vacancies
• Filters:
  • 1 digit SOC code and name
  • 2 digit SOC code and name
  • 3 digit SOC code and name
• Time period: 2011 to 2022

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

country_name	country_code	geographic_level	time_period	time_identifier	sector	soc_4_labelled	soc_3_labelled	soc_2_labelled	soc_1_labelled	sample_occupations_estab_has_vacancy	vac_sum	htfv_sum	ssv_sum	htfv_den	ssv_den
England	E92000001	National	2011	Calendar year	Arts & Other Services	1116 - 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	2011	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	2011	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	2011	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
England	E92000001	National	2011	Calendar year	Arts & Other Services	1132 - Marketing and sales 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_estab_has_vacancy	Number of occupations for which establishments had at least one vacancy in the specific SOC code
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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