Labour Market Information (LMI) is information about what is happening in a labour market. LMI tends to focus on the industries that are growing and declining, the types and levels of jobs are increasing and decreasing and what supply of labour is available – numbers, skill and qualification levels.
Definition: A labour market is the place where workers and employees interact with each other. In this market, employers compete to hire the best, and the workers compete for the best satisfying job.
The most popular response to hiring difficulties has been to raise pay (44%). But employers may be reaching a limit on how much further they can go on pay: only 27% anticipate raising pay in future to address hard-to-fill vacancies. Encouragingly, employers are also looking to other means to tackle staffing challenges: 39% have focused on upskilling more existing staff and 38% have advertised more jobs as flexible. These are vital factors in improving job quality and will be increasingly important for employers as they wrestle with recruitment as well as retention.
The Office for National Statistics published its August 2026 labour market figures this morning, covering April to June 2026 for the Labour Force Survey and…
UK hiring demand weakened further during the first half of 2026, according to Indeed’s annual Mid-Year UK Labour Market Update. As of 17 July, job…
Starter jobs are disappearing faster than the wider market, youth unemployment is climbing, and one in three young people outside full time education is now…
Summer job postings are tracking below prior years, spelling yet fewer avenues for British youth in a tough labour market. London, 10th June 2026: New…
Unemployment holds at 5.2%. Regular pay growth hits a five-year low. Vacancies slip further below pre-pandemic levels. And in April, it gets more expensive to…
National Apprenticeship Week serves as a reminder of both the transformational impact that further and higher education can have on people’s lives and the acute…
The UK job market showed early suggestions of recovery at the end of 2025, despite rising unemployment, falling payrolled jobs, and ongoing signs of strain according to CV-Library, one of the…
The Autumn budget was a missed opportunity. It wasn’t quite the catastrophe of last year, but it fell far short of the pro-jobs, pro-growth Budget…
The latest ONS Labour Market info has been released for the Quarter May to July 2025. There are now more people looking for fewer available…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 810: 16th August 2025 | Beyond Results Day: Are We Building The Workforce For Skills England’s 2030 Vision? Level 3…
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