Indicators

The latest economic and labour market statistics.

This tool keeps you up to date with:

  • Economic trends, including inflation.
  • Labour market information, including unemployment rates.
  • Pay and hours figures, including average earnings.

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Economic trends

Labour market

  • Recruitment

    Updated to include data for March 2021 on the availability and recruitment of permanent and temporary staff from IHS Markit/KPMG/Recruitment & Employment Confederation. The next figures are due to be published on 7 May 2021.

  • Employment

    Updated to include the latest official statistics from the ONS on employment and unemployment, and labour market forecasts from HM Treasury and ManpowerGroup. The next ONS release date is 20 April 2021.

  • Labour disputes

    Updated on 21 April 2020 to include a note from the ONS in response to the coronavirus pandemic and changes to the labour disputes section of the monthly labour market report.

Pay and hours

  • Working hours

    Updated to include official statistics from the ONS on average weekly hours worked in the UK for the three months to the end of January 2021. The next ONS release date is 20 April 2021.

  • Average earnings

    Updated to include official earnings data from the ONS for January 2021, and forecasts from XpertHR. The next ONS release date is 20 April 2021.

  • Pay awards

    Updated to include the XpertHR pay settlement data for the three months to the end of February 2021. XpertHR will publish the next pay figures on 22 April 2021.

  • ONS gender pay gap data: ASHE 2020

    We provide a breakdown of pay benchmarking data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2020, providing headline figures on the gender pay gap.

  • ONS pay rate data: ASHE 2020

    Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2020. The next ONS release date is November 2021.

  • Guide to official pay figures

    Here we present an HR practitioner's comparative guide to the two main official sources of pay information: the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and average weekly earnings (AWE).

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