Labour Market In The Regions Of The UK: September 2022

13th September 2022

For the three months ending July 2022, the highest employment rate estimate in the UK was in the East of England (78.6%) and the lowest was in Northern Ireland (69.6%).

The largest increase in the employment rate compared with the same period last year was in Scotland and the West Midlands, both up by 1.1 percentage points, the largest decrease was in Wales down by 2.4 percentage points.

For the three months ending July 2022, the highest unemployment rate estimate in the UK was in the North East (4.7%) and the lowest was in the South West (2.7%); three regions had record lows, the North West (3.5%), London (4.2%) and Scotland (3.1%).

All regions in the UK saw a decrease in the unemployment rate compared with the same period last year, with London having the largest decrease at 1.8 percentage points, and Yorkshire and The Humber the smallest at 0.2 percentage points.

For the three months ending July 2022, the highest economic inactivity rate estimate in the UK was in Northern Ireland (28.2%) and the lowest was in the East of England (18.9%); Wales saw the largest increase in the inactivity rate compared with the same period last year by 3.5 percentage points, and both Yorkshire and The Humber and the West Midlands saw a fall of 0.6 percentage points.

Between March and June 2022, workforce jobs increased in 10 out of 12 regions of the UK, London had the largest increase of 89,000, while Scotland and the East of England had falls of 13,000 and 9,000 respectively; London had the highest proportion of service-based jobs at 92.0%, while the East Midlands had the highest proportion of production sector jobs at 12.5%.

Between July and August 2022, the number of payrolled employees in the UK continued to steadily increase in all regions.

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