There were 702,000 job vacancies in the UK in June to August 2026
Job vacancies, per 100 employee jobs and per unemployed person, UK, rolling three months, 2001 to 2026. Seasonally adjusted.
Latest figures
| Series | Period | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Job vacancies | June to August 2026 | 702,000 |
| Vacancies per 100 employee jobs | May to July 2026 | 2.2 |
| Vacancies per unemployed person | May to July 2026 | 0.40 |
Notes
- A vacancy is a job that an employer is recruiting for from outside their business or organisation. Figures come from the ONS Vacancy Survey of businesses, which began in April 2001, and cover all industries except agriculture, forestry and fishing.
- Each figure covers three months, seasonally adjusted. Figures are revised in later releases.
- Vacancies per 100 employee jobs compares vacancies with the number of jobs held by employees, so it allows for the growth in the number of jobs over the years. The ONS lists this series as superseded by its job openings rate, which is not shown here.
- Vacancies per unemployed person divides vacancies by the number of unemployed people aged 16 and over in the same three months. Unemployed people come from the Labour Force Survey, a survey of households whose response rate has fallen since 2020, and their figures come out a month after vacancies for the same months, so this panel ends a month earlier.
Sources
More on economy
- The UK economy was 1.4% larger in April to June 2026 than a year earlier
- GDP per person was £42,493 in the year to June 2026, in 2024 prices
- Real household disposable income was £26,154 per person in the year to June 2026, in 2024 prices
- Consumer prices rose 3.1% in the year to August 2026
- The unemployment rate was 4.9% in May to July 2026
- 75.1% of people aged 16 to 64 were in work in May to July 2026
- 6.4% of people aged 16 to 64 in the UK were economically inactive because of long-term sickness in May to July 2026: 2.78 million people
- 13.0% of people aged 16 to 24 in the UK were not in education, employment or training in April to June 2026: 981,000 young people
- Average weekly pay after inflation was 0.9% higher in May to July 2026 than a year earlier