Tax year 2018-19

Career pathways: post-16 qualifications held by employees

Early-career employees by industry sector, education achievements and annualised earnings for FY2018-19.

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  • Employee numbers and median earnings by region, sector, subsector, level and subject

    National, Regional

    Data showing employee numbers and median earnings by region, sector, sub-sector, level and subject area. Employee numbers are presented as volumes and as percentages by level, sector and sub-sector, region and subject area. This dataset includes the full cohort of employees.  It is designed to work with the table creator tool.

    Number of rows
    166,972
    Indicators
    • Median annual earnings
    • Number of employees
    • Proportion of employees by industry sector
    Filters
    • Highest qualification level
    • Industry sector
    • Industry sub-sector
    Time period
    2018-19
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  • Top ten qualifications by region and industry sector ordered by employee numbers

    National, Regional

    Data showing the top 10 qualifications held by employees in each region, sector and subsector group. The qualifications are ordered by the number of employees who hold them and are based on the highest qualification held by employees. This file only includes qualifications at level 2 or higher that were achieved in post-16 education. Qualifications achieved at school, such as GCSEs, are excluded. It is designed to work with the table creator tool.

    Number of rows
    28,097
    Indicators
    • Median annual earnings
    • Number of employees
    • Proportion of employees by qualification
    Filters
    • Industry sector
    • Industry sub-sector
    • Level
    Time period
    2018-19
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  • Top ten qualifications by region and industry sector ordered by median earnings

    National, Regional

    Data showing the top 10 qualifications with the highest median earnings held by employees in each region, sector and subsector group. The qualifications represent the highest held by employees. This table only includes qualifications at level 2 or higher that were achieved in post-16 education. Qualifications achieved at school, such as GCSEs, are excluded. It is designed to work with the table creator tool.

    Number of rows
    8,686
    Indicators
    • Median annual earnings
    • Number of employees
    • Proportion of employees by qualification
    Filters
    • Industry sector
    • Industry sub-sector
    • Level
    Time period
    2018-19
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  • Qualification pathways for high earning employees

    National, Regional

    This is the underlying data used to create this interactive pathways visualisation in the career pathways dashboard. The pathways visualisation provides a summary of common qualification pathways followed by top earning employees of each industry sector and in each region. Top earning employees are those who are in the top third of earners in their region and sector. Qualification pathways are constructed from regulated qualifications achieved by employees in post-16 education at level 2 and above. Basic skills qualifications, unregulated provision and qualifications achieved at school, such as GCSEs, are excluded.  AS Levels and smaller qualifications that are taken alongside A Levels or larger level 2 and 3 qualifications as also excluded. This file is designed to provide access to the underlying data for this publication rather than for use with the table creator tool. pct_employees is the proportion of employees for a given qualification who went on to achieve the subsequent qualification. qual_rank is the ranking of the starting qualification by number of employees, within the region, sector and starting level, dest_rank is the ranking of the subsequent qualification by number of employees, within the region, sector and starting level.

    Number of rows
    161,203
    Indicators
    • Level of subsequent qualification
    • Number of employees
    • Proportion of employees by subsequent qualification
    Filters
    • Highest qualification level
    • Industry sector
    • Qualification ranking by number of employees
    Time period
    2018-19
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  • Top qualifications by region and industry sector ordered by employee numbers

    National, Regional

    Data showing the top qualifications held by employees in each region, sector and subsector group. The qualifications are ordered by the number of employees who hold them and are based on the highest qualification held by employees. The data are restricted to qualification in the top 40 by number of employees for each region, sector, subsector and level. If a qualification is not in the top 40, it is still included if at least 100 employees hold it. The table only includes qualifications at level 2 or higher that were achieved in post-16 education. Qualifications achieved at school, such as GCSEs, are excluded. This file is designed to provide access to the underlying data for this publication rather than for use with the table creator tool. Pct_qual is the proportion of employees in the region, sector and subsector who hold the qualification. qual_rank is the ranking of the qualification by number of employees within the region, sector, subsector and level.

    Number of rows
    183,555
    Indicators
    • Median annual earnings
    • Number of employees
    • Proportion of employees by qualification
    Filters
    • Highest qualification level
    • Industry sector
    • Industry sub-sector
    Time period
    2018-19
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Supporting files

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  • Jacs to SSA subject lookup

    This file includes the mapping of JACS codes to SSA tier 1 subject codes used in this statistics release.

    Download Jacs to SSA subject lookup (csv, 11 Kb)

  • Short qualification title lookup

    This file includes a mapping of short qualification titles to long form qualification titles. The short qualification titles are used in the qualification pathways analysis in the career pathways dashboard. This mapping translates the short titles into the form used elsewhere in this statistics release.

    Download Short qualification title lookup (csv, 228 Kb)
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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the  contents of the underlying data files accompanying this statistics publication. There is a methodology document that is that contains further information on the statistics published here.

Coverage

Employees living in England born between September 1988 and August 1993. Employees must be in PAYE sustained employment in the 2018-19 tax year and must not be studying at a Higher Education provider in the 2018/19 academic year. Employees must also be matched to an SIC code in the IDBR.

File formats and conventions

The underlying data files are provided in comma separated value (csv) format.

Employee numbers are rounded to the nearest 10, annual median earnings are rounded to the nearest 100 and percentages are provided to the nearest one decimal place. Figures have been suppressed with the value ‘u’ for annual earnings based on fewer than 10 employees and ‘c’ for percentages where the numerator is less than 3 or the denominator is less than 6. Employee numbers below 5 are replaced with ‘low.’

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