Published on: March 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
UK Labour Market Overview
This quarter’s UK labour market update shows a labour market that may be on the turn:
- Employment, workforce jobs, employees and earnings all increased
- However, redundancies, unemployment and claimant count also increased, while the number of vacancies decreased
- Earnings continue to rise in real terms
UK Labour Market Overview February 2025
Vocational & Academic Education Profiles
This paper provides a summary of the latest trends in starts and achievements across GCSEs, A Levels, higher education and apprenticeships in various STEM subject areas that are relevant to the energy and utilities sector
It provides further evidence of the need to take action in the following areas:
- To achieve greater female representation on STEM courses at A Level and higher education
- To achieve greater female and representation and ethnic diversity on “technical” apprenticeship programme relevant to the energy and utilities sector
- Address the falling number of starts in the Physical sciences at higher education level
- Promote the greater likelihood of STEM graduates who enter employment in the energy and utilities sector doing so at a higher-level occupation and earning a higher salary
- Make the most of graduates who enter the sector’s workforce via administrative and customer services occupations – accounting for nearly one-in-five of graduates entering the sector