Number of people employed in the UK 2000-2024

There were just under 33.3 million people employed in the United Kingdom in the three months to September 2024. This represented a peak for the number of people employed in the country during this provided time period. In general, the number of people employed has consistently increased, with noticeable dips in employment occurring in 2008 due to the global financial crisis, and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Labor market staying strong in 2024Although there was a sharp increase in the UK's unemployment rate in the aftermath of COVID-19, the UK labor market bounced back forcefully after this sudden shock. By the middle of 2022, the UK's unemployment rate had recovered to pre-pandemic levels, while the number of job vacancies in the UK reached record highs. Wage growth was, by this point, growing at a much slower rate than inflation, which peaked at 11.1 percent in October 2022. In the months since then, the UK labor market has cooled slightly; with unemployment bumping up to 4.2 percent and the number of job vacancies falling from their May 2022 peak. Characteristics of UK workersAs of the fourth quarter of 2023, the majority of UK workers were working in the private sector, at 27.2 million workers. In the same quarter the size of the UK's public sector workforce stood at approximately 5.93 million, with around 1.98 million of these people working for the UK's National Health Service (NHS), and a further 1.5 million in the public education sector. In the UK's private sector, the industry sector which employed the most people was wholesale and retail, which had a workforce of over 4.9 million people, followed by administrative and support service roles at around 3.08 million.

截至2024年9月的三个月内，英国就业人口约为3330万人。这一数字标志着在此时间段内该国就业人数的峰值。总体而言，就业人数持续增长，2008年全球金融危机和2020年新冠疫情导致的就业下降尤为显著。尽管新冠疫情爆发后英国失业率急剧上升，但英国劳动力市场在遭受这一突发冲击后迅速强劲反弹。到2022年中旬，英国的失业率已恢复至疫情前水平，而英国的职位空缺数量达到了历史最高。到那时，工资增长的速度远低于通货膨胀，后者在2022年10月达到了11.1%的峰值。在此之后数月，英国的劳动力市场略有降温；失业率上升至4.2%，而职位空缺数量从2022年5月的峰值下降。英国工人特征截至2023年第四季度，英国大多数工人（约2720万人）在私营部门工作。在同一季度，英国公共部门劳动力规模约为593万，其中约198万人在英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）工作，另有150万人从事公共教育行业。在英国私营部门中，雇佣人数最多的行业是批发和零售业，拥有超过490万员工，其次是行政和支持服务岗位，约有308万人。