Relatively well-paying managerial, professional and semi-professional type jobs have grown faster than any other sort of work in the UK over the last decade, a new analysis from The Work Foundation reveals.

The report finds that far from there having been a boom in low-paying, low-skilled service sector work since the mid 1990s, in fact, low paying jobs have grown less significantly than ‘good jobs’ at higher levels of the labour market.

The report finds that among men, managerial jobs grew by 12.73%, professionals by 8.13% and associate professional jobs, such as nurses and technicians, by 16.98% between 1995 and 2005.

Ian Brinkley, director of the knowledge economy programme at The Work Foundation and co-author of the report, said: “The idea that the decline of manufacturing has meant the end of decent jobs paying decent wages in clearly unfounded.”