How we calculate our data
Every figure in YourJobs Insights comes from live UK vacancies and is refreshed monthly. This is how each number is produced.
By Louisa Lowe, Editor — Careers & Workplace · Updated 16 June 2026Source. All figures are derived from live UK job vacancies in the CV-Library affiliate feed — the same feed that powers our job listings. 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 16 June 2026.
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.
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.