How we calculate our data

Source. All figures are derived from the live UK job vacancies listed on YourJobs.co.uk — the same jobs you can search and apply for on this site. We do not survey employees or use third-party salary databases. The data describes what employers are advertising right now, not what every worker earns.

Refresh. A snapshot is taken on the first of each month and stored, so figures are point-in-time and trends build over time. The current snapshot is 1 November 2026. Pay ranges on job-title pages and the figures on town pages come from separate samples taken weekly; each page prints its own sample date.

Job counts

Sector and location counts use the feed's filtered totals (by category or geography), which are authoritative.

Role demand needs a correction. A keyword search such as "cleaner" also matches adverts that merely mention cleaning in the description, so the raw total over-counts. We sample live adverts for each role and keep only those whose title matches the role, then scale the total by that match rate. The figure shown is that corrected estimate of genuinely on-title vacancies.

Salaries

We parse the advertised salary on each vacancy and annualise it — hourly rates at 37.5 hours × 52 weeks, daily rates at five days × 52 weeks. We take the median of adverts that state pay, which resists outliers better than an average. Adverts marked "competitive", "negotiable" or otherwise unparseable are excluded rather than guessed, so a salary figure reflects only adverts that actually quoted pay.

Town and city figures use up to 300 of the most recent adverts within 10 miles of a town or 15 miles of a city. A pay figure is shown only when at least 30 of those adverts state pay. It is the median of advertised pay in that sample, with the range covering the middle half of adverts. It is not a measure of what people living or working there earn.

Job types

The feed labels each advert as permanent, temporary, contract or part-time, and an advert can carry more than one label. Town pages report the share of sampled adverts carrying each label. The feed cannot be filtered by job type, so these are sample shares, not counts of every vacancy.

AI & automation exposure

We scan each advert's title and summary for references to AI and automation — terms including "AI", "machine learning", "automation", "RPA" and "copilot" — and report the share of adverts in each sector and role that mention them. This is based on the summary text the feed provides (a short excerpt), so it is a consistent relative measure of how prominently AI features, not an absolute full-text rate. It is best read as a trend and a comparison between roles, not a precise percentage.

Limitations

The data covers vacancies in one large UK feed, not the entire labour market. Advertised pay can differ from agreed pay. Some employers hide salaries, so salary samples are smaller than job counts. We publish the method openly so the numbers can be checked and cited with their caveats intact.

Using our data

You are free to use these figures and charts, including in newspapers, magazines, broadcast and online articles, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The one condition: credit YourJobs Insights and link to the page the figures came from, for example: Source: YourJobs Insights, yourjobs.co.uk.