Jobless Rate Falls but Small Firms Cut Back on Hiring

The UK’s unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest for more than year, but job vacancies have continued to fall as smaller businesses cut back on recruitment, official figures indicate.The jobless rate fell to 4.7% in the three months to August, the Office for...

Labour Market Briefing: October 2026

Every month, Learning and Work Institute produces detailed and timely analysis of the latest labour market statistics from ONS. We examine what the figures tell us both about the health of our labour market, and what they mean for people’s experiences of work, with a...