Aberdeen and Cambridge the places to be for jobseekers
22 May 2013
The best places to be a jobseeker in the UK are Aberdeen and Cambridge, according to research from jobs and ad search engine Adzuna.
Wed, 22 May 2013The best places to be a jobseeker in the UK are Aberdeen and Cambridge, according to research from jobs and ad search engine Adzuna.
The reason for this is they are the cities with the lowest ratio of people claiming jobseekers allowance to vacancies – with 0.38 in Aberdeen, and 0.67 in Cambridge.
Three other cities come out below 1.0 in this metric – Guildford at 0.71, and Reading and Winchester, both standing at 0.98. Three places have more than 50 jobseekers per vacancy – Salford (55.08), The Wirral (54.90) and Hull (53.33).
Adzuna’s May 2013 UK Employment Market Report agrees with a trend noted last week by the Office for National Statistics that the number of job ads in the UK is at a high. But while the ONS noted 503,000 job vacancies in the three months to April 2013, Adzuna’s figure is slightly lower, at 461,000 for the month of April.
The Adzuna research also shows that the IT and sales sectors have led the way with salary increases, increasing 6% and 5% over the past six months respectively.
The reason for this is they are the cities with the lowest ratio of people claiming jobseekers allowance to vacancies – with 0.38 in Aberdeen, and 0.67 in Cambridge.
Three other cities come out below 1.0 in this metric – Guildford at 0.71, and Reading and Winchester, both standing at 0.98. Three places have more than 50 jobseekers per vacancy – Salford (55.08), The Wirral (54.90) and Hull (53.33).
Adzuna’s May 2013 UK Employment Market Report agrees with a trend noted last week by the Office for National Statistics that the number of job ads in the UK is at a high. But while the ONS noted 503,000 job vacancies in the three months to April 2013, Adzuna’s figure is slightly lower, at 461,000 for the month of April.
The Adzuna research also shows that the IT and sales sectors have led the way with salary increases, increasing 6% and 5% over the past six months respectively.
