unemployment per profession

userman

hello!
are there statistics about unemployment rates per specific profession? or in other words, demand for each profession?
thanks!

AP007

If you are unemployed you don't really have one

Mine WAS accounts but that's not my profession now, if you get me.

They can not get a list of the total unemployed looking for one particular job function as that's near on impossible.

userman

I am basically asking something like:
how many with IT engineering degree are unemployed or employed in irrelevant professions?

brendon

I doubt you can get unemployment information, but you can certainly get statistics on the workforce size and see how it has changed over the last few years (you'd probably think that industry shrinks => large unemployment).

If you look at the latest Labour Market Statistics, take a look at "6. Workforce jobs by industry - Table JOBS02". It's on page 41 of the .pdf bulletin if you don't have Excel. The pdf also has the change % calculated for you.

It'll tell you some quite interesting things. E.g. that Agriculture,
forestry & fishing lost 74,000 jobs in the past year and Professional
scientific & technical activities gained 118,000.

userman

spot-on brendon! thanks!

AP007

userman wrote: »

I am basically asking something like:
how many with IT engineering degree are unemployed or employed in irrelevant professions?

How would anyone know? Who knows if anyone has a degree? The DWP don't hold that info.

AP007

brendon wrote: »

I doubt you can get unemployment information, but you can certainly get statistics on the workforce size and see how it has changed over the last few years (you'd probably think that industry shrinks => large unemployment).

If you look at the latest Labour Market Statistics, take a look at "6. Workforce jobs by industry - Table JOBS02". It's on page 41 of the .pdf bulletin if you don't have Excel. The pdf also has the change % calculated for you.

It'll tell you some quite interesting things. E.g. that Agriculture,
forestry & fishing lost 74,000 jobs in the past year and Professional
scientific & technical activities gained 118,000.

Industry is not the same as job function and that's what the OP is asking, no?

Also I am sure it don't mention that the 118,000 jobs all went to unemployed people

userman

AP007 wrote: »

Industry is not the same as job function and that's what the OP is asking, no?

true but it's an indication

userman

AP007 wrote: »

How would anyone know? Who knows if anyone has a degree? The DWP don't hold that info.

don't jobcentreplus ask people if they have a degree?

AP007

userman wrote: »

don't jobcentreplus ask people if they have a degree?

Do they? I have no idea as I am sure I have never told them what qualifications I have and besides what do you think they do with that info?

I am AAT qualified but I have never told them that.

They are not collecting lists of people qualifications

AP007

userman wrote: »

true but it's an indication

Indication of what? I have worked in several industries doing the same job but my profession in accounts is what your first question was about. How many people in a certain profession were out of work. Industry don't count.