Employment by professional status in United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Employment by professional status was 34,160 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in United Kingdom, 1956–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
The most recent figure for employment by professional status in United Kingdom is 34,160 Persons, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 70 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.6% on the previous year and up 9.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in United Kingdom peaked at 34,160 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 23,060 Persons, in 1958.
That places United Kingdom 7th out of 33 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 70 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 23,158 Persons | 23,060 Persons | 23,237 Persons | 4 |
| 1960s | 24,377 Persons | 23,660 Persons | 24,934 Persons | 10 |
| 1970s | 24,574 Persons | 24,139 Persons | 25,080 Persons | 10 |
| 1980s | 24,540 Persons | 23,304 Persons | 26,549 Persons | 10 |
| 1990s | 25,911 Persons | 25,088 Persons | 26,818 Persons | 10 |
| 2000s | 28,605 Persons | 27,484 Persons | 29,628 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 30,954 Persons | 29,227 Persons | 32,919 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 33,197 Persons | 32,552 Persons | 34,160 Persons | 6 |
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More work & labour data for United Kingdom
- Labour force participation rate (ILO modelled estimates) 60.91 (2027)
- Labour force (ILO modelled estimates) 35,770 (2027)
- Labour force (ILO modelled estimates) (15+), annual growth rate 0.4352 % change on previous year (2027)
- Legislation on sexual harassment in employment 1 (2023)
- Criminal penalties or civil remedies sexual harassment in employment 1 (2023)
- Women can take the same jobs as men 1 (2023)
- Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15+) 61.4% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15+) 65.6% (2025)
- Ratio of female to male labor force participation rate (%) 87.4% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages) 57.3% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in United Kingdom?
- Employment by professional status in United Kingdom was 34,160 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in United Kingdom?
- The highest recorded value was 34,160 Persons in 2025.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in United Kingdom?
- The lowest recorded value was 23,060 Persons in 1958.
- How does United Kingdom rank for employment by professional status?
- United Kingdom ranks 7th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in United Kingdom?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this United Kingdom data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Employment by professional status (ICSE-93). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataflow "Employment by profesional status (ICSE-93)" is a subset of the “Employment by activites and status (ALFS)” dataset which presents annual labour force statistics for OECD member countries, Brazil and 4 geographical areas (Major Seven, Euro zone, European Union and OECD-Total). This dataflow contains employment statistics for all economic activities broken down by professional status as defined by the ICSE-1993 including employees, employers and own-account workers, and unpaid family workers. Economic activities are defined according to the Major divisions of the International standard International Classification (ISIC) Rev. 4 with the exception of the United-States wich compiled since 2003, employment data by sector following the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS); NAICS sector are then proxied to ISIC Rev. 4 and are therefore not strictly comparable with other countries’ data. The professional status is defined in the International Classification by status in Employment (ICSE-1993). To be considered as an unpaid family worker, the hour-threshold varies from one hour to 18 hours a week. Data are presented in thousands of persons, or as indices with base year 2015=100. Annual data in this dataset are typically calculated as averages of infra-annual estimates. This can lead to differences with annual data published by National Statistics Institutes.