Data and commentary on demand for occupations, using 4-digit SOC20 definitions, and industries, using grouped SIC, across the UK labour market.
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Contains the occupation code, description and number of workers in occupations in critical demand, split by whether any indicators in elevated or critical demand are flagged as uncertain.
Contains the occupation code, description and number of workers of all included occupations, split by demand level.
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This file contains demand indicators used in determining occupations in demand before weighting and scaling.
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This file contains demand indicators used in determining occupations in demand, demand levels, and information on demand indicator uncertainty and indicator imputation.
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This file contains industry level demand data, based on proportional distribution of occupations in demand across industries.
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This file contains 2024 release demand indicators used in determining occupations in demand after weighting and scaling together with the overall demand index.
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This file contains 2024 release industry level demand data, based on proportional distribution of occupations in demand across industries.
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This file contains revised 2024 release demand indicators used in determining occupations in demand before weighting and scaling.
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This file contains revised 2024 release demand indicators used in determining occupations in demand, demand levels, and information on demand indicator uncertainty and indicator imputation.
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This file contains revised 2024 release industry level demand data, based on proportional distribution of occupations in demand across industries.
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This file contains the demand level, and skill level of occupations across the original and revised release of 2024 occupations in demand
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Distribution of SOC occupational workers to SIC industry workers in the 2024 occupations in demand analysis.
Lookup for grouping SOC20 4-digit occupation codes into construction, STEM, and immigration salary list occupations. Full details and sources for groupings can be found in the publication methodology.
Distribution of SOC occupational workers to SIC industry workers.
Demand level for each SOC2020 4-digit occupation using the original published and revised methodology for the 2024 publication year data. Demand indicator uncertainty and imputed indicator information is also included for the revised 2024 analysis.
Mapping between 2 digit SIC to industry names used in the occupations in demand report
List of occupations included within the occupations in demand analysis against the level of demand seen, demand index value, number of workers in the occupation, information on demand indicators with uncertainty and imputed indicators
Mapping between 2 digit SIC to industry names used in the occupations in demand report used in the 2024 occupations in demand publication.
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
This page describes the underlying data files for the ‘Occupations in demand’ official statistics in development release. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in a new tab) (opens in new tab).
The publication methodology explains the definitions used and how estimates have been produced. It also provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality.
The data used in this release mostly relate to the UK labour market and are aggregated together to create a UK demand index. The exception to this are indicators using data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which does not contain data from Northern Ireland and is therefore Great Britain only.
This publication revises the 2024 occupations in demand publication using an updated methodology.
The earliest data source used in this release when revising the 2024 occupations in demand publication contains data to April 2022, the latest contains data to March 2024.
The earliest data source used in this release when producing new 2025 occupations in demand analysis contains data to April 2024, the latest contains data to September 2025.
Information on how occupations or industries have been grouped together can be found in the additional supporting files of this release.
Full details of the coverage for each source are provided in the publication methodology.
The underlying data files are provided in comma separated value (csv) format.
Rounding and decimal places vary across the different files, based on conventions for the relevant sources and what is appropriate for the analysis that has been undertaken.
Symbols used in the underlying data are as follows:
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