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5 Skilled trades occupations (Great Britain)


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Na h-Eileanan Siar 3,700 26.4
Barrow-in-Furness 7,400 24.4
Ashfield 11,500 23.1
Staffordshire Moorlands 10,900 21.3
Ryedale 5,900 20.7
North Kesteven 10,800 20.4
Eden 5,500 20.2
North Norfolk 8,800 19.6
South Somerset 15,500 19.5
Thanet 11,800 19.4
Stroud 11,900 18.1
East Lindsey 12,100 18.1
East Northamptonshire 9,200 17.9
West Oxfordshire 11,400 17.6
Carlisle 10,200 17.4
Isle of Anglesey 5,800 17.2
Maidstone 12,900 16.9
South Kesteven 11,000 16.9
Castle Point 8,100 16.9
East Devon 10,900 16.4
Dumfries and Galloway 9,800 16.3
Powys 9,200 15.8
Mid Devon 6,200 15.2
East Staffordshire 9,100 15.0
Hambleton 6,800 14.9
East Ayrshire 8,100 14.7
Rushcliffe 9,200 14.7
King's Lynn and West Norfolk 11,000 14.4
Cornwall 37,900 14.4
Blaby 8,100 14.2
Herefordshire, County of 13,500 14.2
Southampton 19,300 14.2
Falkirk 10,600 14.1
South Derbyshire 7,500 14.0
County Durham 33,700 14.0
Carmarthenshire 11,300 13.9
Broxtowe 7,500 13.7
Shropshire 20,800 13.6
Kirklees 28,000 13.5
Aberdeenshire 19,800 13.4
South Ayrshire 5,700 13.4
Sedgemoor 7,700 13.4
North Lincolnshire 10,700 13.4
Breckland 8,600 13.3
Wakefield 20,700 13.2
Aylesbury Vale 14,200 13.2
Blaenau Gwent 4,000 13.0
Gloucester 9,500 13.0
Teignbridge 8,100 12.9
Ceredigion 4,700 12.9
Argyll and Bute 4,900 12.8
East Dorset 5,700 12.7
Arun 10,100 12.7
Pembrokeshire 7,100 12.6
Sunderland 16,300 12.6
Moray 5,600 12.6
Central Bedfordshire 20,100 12.5
Rugby 6,500 12.5
Torbay 7,500 12.5
West Lothian 11,300 12.4
Walsall 15,800 12.4
Conwy 6,200 12.3
Dudley 19,200 12.3
Clackmannanshire 2,800 12.3
North Ayrshire 6,900 12.3
Harrogate 9,700 12.3
Wealden 9,300 11.9
Harrow 14,000 11.8
Luton 12,400 11.7
Denbighshire 4,800 11.6
East Riding of Yorkshire 18,800 11.6
Barnsley 13,400 11.6
Thurrock 10,200 11.5
Barking and Dagenham 12,000 11.3
Wiltshire 27,600 11.2
Doncaster 15,600 11.2
Plymouth 14,000 11.1
Bracknell Forest 7,100 11.0
Midlothian 5,500 11.0
South Gloucestershire 16,900 10.9
Charnwood 10,900 10.9
Isle of Wight 6,100 10.7
Huntingdonshire 10,400 10.7
Rhondda Cynon Taff 11,400 10.6
Glasgow City 34,400 10.6
New Forest 9,400 10.6
Stratford-on-Avon 7,100 10.6
Neath Port Talbot 6,800 10.5
Torfaen 4,600 10.5
Renfrewshire 9,600 10.5
Angus 5,500 10.4
Basingstoke and Deane 10,000 10.4
Merthyr Tydfil 2,800 10.3
Calderdale 10,700 10.3
Wrexham 7,400 10.2
North East Lincolnshire 7,200 10.0
Spelthorne 5,100 9.9
Kettering 4,900 9.9
Bedford 8,400 9.9
South Cambridgeshire 8,200 9.7
North Lanarkshire 16,100 9.7
Gedling 5,000 9.7
Kingston upon Hull, City of 12,500 9.7
Northumberland 12,900 9.7
Coventry 17,800 9.6
Bolton 12,100 9.5
Basildon 9,000 9.5
St. Helens 8,200 9.5
Allerdale 4,400 9.4
Havering 13,200 9.4
Knowsley 6,500 9.4
Perth and Kinross 6,800 9.3
Nuneaton and Bedworth 6,100 9.2
West Dunbartonshire 3,900 9.2
Gateshead 8,800 9.2
Bridgend 5,800 9.1
Bradford 21,200 9.1
North Somerset 10,100 9.1
Scottish Borders 4,800 9.0
Wolverhampton 10,400 9.0
South Lanarkshire 14,300 9.0
Liverpool 21,300 8.9
Blackpool 5,300 8.9
Taunton Deane 5,400 8.9
Inverclyde 3,100 8.9
Milton Keynes 12,300 8.9
Gwynedd 5,000 8.9
Redcar and Cleveland 5,400 8.8
Oldham 10,100 8.8
Hartlepool 3,500 8.7
Blackburn with Darwen 5,600 8.7
Bromley 15,200 8.7
Flintshire 6,700 8.6
Birmingham 43,500 8.6
Rochdale 8,700 8.5
Tameside 9,000 8.5
Fife 14,600 8.5
Medway 12,400 8.5
South Lakeland 4,100 8.4
Rotherham 9,500 8.4
Stoke-on-Trent 10,100 8.4
East Dunbartonshire 4,100 8.4
Wycombe 7,500 8.3
Reading 8,100 8.3
South Tyneside 4,700 8.2
Bristol, City of 20,600 8.1
Poole 6,000 8.1
Peterborough 8,400 8.0
Sheffield 24,000 7.9
Bexley 10,000 7.8
West Berkshire 6,600 7.8
Portsmouth 9,400 7.8
Swansea 9,400 7.8
Sandwell 11,900 7.8
Middlesbrough 4,700 7.7
Stockton-on-Tees 7,100 7.7
Telford and Wrekin 6,600 7.6
Highland 9,100 7.5
Epping Forest 4,600 7.3
Solihull 7,500 7.3
Stirling 3,500 7.2
Wigan 10,400 7.1
Southend-on-Sea 6,200 7.1
Wirral 11,000 7.1
Cheltenham 4,200 6.9
Greenwich 11,400 6.9
York 7,800 6.9
Derby 9,100 6.8
Windsor and Maidenhead 5,400 6.8
Cheshire East 12,900 6.7
Halton 4,000 6.6
Darlington 3,600 6.6
Brighton and Hove 10,000 6.4
Leeds 25,400 6.3
Newport 4,500 6.2
North Tyneside 6,000 6.2
Bournemouth 6,600 6.2
Salford 7,700 6.1
East Lothian 3,300 6.1
Caerphilly 5,200 6.1
Swindon 6,800 6.0
Sutton 6,400 6.0
Cardiff 11,700 5.9
Newcastle upon Tyne 8,300 5.8
City of Edinburgh 17,500 5.8
Barnet 10,400 5.7
Sefton 7,400 5.7
Tower Hamlets 9,800 5.6
Stockport 7,800 5.6
Monmouthshire 2,500 5.5
Croydon 10,300 5.1
Leicester 8,200 5.1
Aberdeen City 5,700 5.0
Bath and North East Somerset 5,000 4.9
Warrington 4,700 4.4
Nottingham 6,500 4.4
Wokingham 2,600 3.0
Vale of Glamorgan 1,400 2.3
Cherwell # #
Tunbridge Wells # #
Gravesham # #
Tonbridge and Malling # #
Test Valley # #
Winchester # #
Ashford # #
Folkestone and Hythe # #
Oxford # #
Swale # #
West Somerset # #
Dover # #
Canterbury # #
Dartford # #
Rushmoor # #
Dundee City # #
Sevenoaks # #
South Oxfordshire # #
Exeter # #
Mendip # #
North Devon # #
South Hams # #
Orkney Islands # #
Torridge # #
West Devon # #
Christchurch # #
North Dorset # #
Purbeck # #
Worthing # #
Mid Sussex # #
Horsham # #
Crawley ! !
West Dorset # #
Chichester # #
Adur ! !
Woking ! !
Waverley # #
Tewkesbury # #
East Renfrewshire # #
Shetland Islands # #
Elmbridge # #
Epsom and Ewell ! !
Forest of Dean # #
Vale of White Horse ! !
Guildford # #
Mole Valley # #
Reigate and Banstead # #
Runnymede ! !
Weymouth and Portland # #
Surrey Heath # #
Tandridge # #
Cotswold # #
Isles of Scilly - -
City of London ! !
Hart # #
Oadby and Wigston ! !
Boston # #
Lincoln ! !
South Holland # #
West Lindsey # #
Corby # #
Daventry # #
Northampton # #
South Northamptonshire # #
Wellingborough # #
Bassetlaw # #
Mansfield # #
Newark and Sherwood # #
North West Leicestershire # #
Cannock Chase # #
Newcastle-under-Lyme # #
South Staffordshire ! !
Stafford # #
Tamworth # #
North Warwickshire # #
Warwick # #
Bromsgrove # #
Malvern Hills # #
Redditch # #
Worcester # #
Wychavon # #
Wyre Forest # #
Cambridge # #
Lichfield # #
Melton # #
Hinckley and Bosworth # #
Harborough # #
Cheshire West and Chester # #
Copeland ! !
Bury # #
Manchester # #
Trafford # #
Burnley ! !
Chorley # #
Fylde ! !
Hyndburn # #
Lancaster # #
Pendle # #
Preston # #
Ribble Valley # #
Rossendale # #
South Ribble # #
West Lancashire # #
Wyre # #
Craven # #
Richmondshire # #
Scarborough # #
Selby # #
Rutland # #
Amber Valley # #
Bolsover # #
Chesterfield # #
Derbyshire Dales ! !
Erewash # #
High Peak # #
North East Derbyshire # #
East Cambridgeshire # #
Havant # #
Fenland # #
Brentwood ! !
Kensington and Chelsea ! !
Lambeth ! !
Lewisham # #
Newham # #
Southwark # #
Wandsworth # #
Westminster ! !
Brent # #
Ealing # #
Enfield # #
Hillingdon # #
Hounslow # #
Kingston upon Thames # #
Islington # #
Merton # #
Richmond upon Thames # #
Waltham Forest # #
Slough # #
Chiltern # #
South Bucks # #
Eastbourne # #
Hastings # #
Lewes # #
Rother ! !
East Hampshire # #
Eastleigh # #
Fareham # #
Gosport # #
Redbridge # #
Haringey # #
Hammersmith and Fulham # #
Hackney # #
Chelmsford # #
Colchester # #
Harlow # #
Maldon # #
Rochford # #
Tendring # #
Uttlesford # #
Broxbourne ! !
Dacorum ! !
East Hertfordshire # #
Hertsmere # #
North Hertfordshire # #
St Albans # #
Stevenage # #
Three Rivers ! !
Watford ! !
Welwyn Hatfield # #
Broadland # #
Great Yarmouth ! !
Norwich # #
South Norfolk # #
Babergh # #
Forest Heath ! !
Ipswich # #
Mid Suffolk # #
St Edmundsbury # #
Suffolk Coastal # #
Waveney # #
Camden # #
Braintree # #
Source: ONS annual population survey [Oct 2022-Sep 2023]

!   Estimate is not available since sample size is disclosive (see definitions)
-   The sample size is too small to allow data to be produced (see definitions)
#   Sample size too small for reliable estimate (see definitions)

Notes:   Numbers and % are for those of 16+
  % is a proportion of all persons in employment

Definitions and Explanations

Labour Supply

Labour supply consists of people who are employed, as well as those people defined as unemployed or economically inactive, who can be considered to be potential labour supply. Information in this section relates to the characteristics of people living in an area.

Most labour supply data comes from the Annual Population Survey (APS). The APS is the largest regular household survey in the United Kingdom. It includes data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), plus further sample boosts in England, Wales and Scotland. The survey includes data from a sample of around 256,000 people aged 16 and over.

As APS estimates are based on samples, they are subject to sampling variability. This means that if another sample for the same period were drawn, a different estimate might be produced. In general, the larger the number of people in a sample, the smaller the variation between estimates. Estimates for smaller areas such as local authorities are therefore less reliable than those for larger areas such as regions. When the sample size is too small to produce reliable estimates, the estimates are replaced with a #.

Economically Active
Economically active
People who are either in employment or unemployed.
Economic activity rate
People, who are economically active, expressed as a percentage of all people.
In employment
People who did some paid work in the reference week (whether as an employee or self employed); those who had a job that they were temporarily away from (eg, on holiday); those on government-supported training and employment programmes; and those doing unpaid family work.
Employment rate
The number of people in employment expressed as a percentage of all people aged 16-64.
Employees and self employed
The division between employees and self employed is based on survey respondents' own assessment of their employment status. The percentage show the number in each category as a percentage of all people aged 16-64. The sum of employees and self employed will not equal the in employment figure due to the inclusion of those on government-supported training and employment programmes, and those doing unpaid family work in the latter.
Unemployed
Refers to people without a job who were available to start work in the two weeks following their interview and who had either looked for work in the four weeks prior to interview or were waiting to start a job they had already obtained.
Unemployed
Refers to people without a job who were available to start work in the two weeks following their interview and who had either looked for work in the four weeks prior to interview or were waiting to start a job they had already obtained.
Model-based unemployed:
As unemployed form a small percentage of the population, the APS unemployed estimates within local authorities are based on very small samples so for many areas would be unreliable. To overcome this ONS has developed a statistical model that provides better estimates of total unemployed for unitary authorities and local authority districts (unemployment estimates for counties are direct survey estimates). Model-based estimates are not produced for male or female unemployed.
The model-based estimate improves on the APS estimate by borrowing strength from the Claimant Count to produce an estimate that is more precise (i.e. has a smaller confidence interval). The number of people measured by the Claimant Count is not itself a measure of unemployment but is strongly correlated with unemployment, and, as it is an administrative count, is known without sampling error. The gain in precision is greatest for areas with smaller sample sizes.
Unemployment rate
Unemployed as a percentage of the economically active population.
Economically inactive
People who are neither in employment nor unemployed. This group includes, for example, all those who were looking after a home or retired.
Occupation
Occupations are classified according to the Standard Occupation Classification 2010. Descriptions of the job titles included in each code are available in the SOC manuals.
Qualifications

Qualifications data are only be available from the APS for calendar year periods, for example, Jan to Dec 2005. The variables show the total number of people who are qualified at a particular level and above, so data in this table are not additive. Separate figures for each NVQ level are available in the full Annual Population Survey data set (wizard/advanced query).

The trade apprenticeships are split 50/50 between NVQ level 2 and 3. This follows ONS policy for presenting qualifications data in publications. Separate counts for trade apprenticeships can be obtained from the full APS data set (wizard/advanced query).

No qualifications
No formal qualifications held.
Other qualifications
includes foreign qualifications and some professional qualifications.
NVQ 1 equivalent
e.g. fewer than 5 GCSEs at grades A-C, foundation GNVQ, NVQ 1, intermediate 1 national qualification (Scotland) or equivalent.
NVQ 2 equivalent
e.g. 5 or more GCSEs at grades A-C, intermediate GNVQ, NVQ 2, intermediate 2 national qualification (Scotland) or equivalent.
NVQ 3 equivalent
e.g. 2 or more A levels, advanced GNVQ, NVQ 3, 2 or more higher or advanced higher national qualifications (Scotland) or equivalent.
NVQ 4 equivalent and above
e.g. HND, Degree and Higher Degree level qualifications or equivalent.
Earnings by Residence

The figures show the median earnings in pounds for employees living in the area who are on adults rates of pay and whose pay was not affected by absence. Figures for earnings come from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). The ASHE is based on a 1 per cent sample of employees, information on whose earnings and hours is obtained from employers. The survey does not cover self-employed. Information relates to a pay period in April.

The earnings information collected relates to gross pay before tax, national insurance or other deductions, and excludes payments in kind. It is restricted to earnings relating to the survey pay period and so excludes payments of arrears from another period made during the survey period; any payments due as a result of a pay settlement but not yet paid at the time of the survey will also be excluded.


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