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DATA – Local Labour Market Data
Look out for updated data on Vacancies.
Remember, this section includes many web links to useful sources of information. Clicking on green text will link you to part of the Labour Market Focus website which supports this e-bulletin, and clicking on blue text will take you to an external website.
NHS Careers - Comprehensive information on entry
requirements and routes into nursing, as well as
a list of institutions that provide nurse training
and education. http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk
Workforce Development Confederations (formerly
known as Education consortia)
Bring together groups of NHS Trusts, universities
and colleges to co-ordinate healthcare training
provision within each local area. Surrey & Sussex:
Tel 01293 847033
The main employers of nurses are NHS Trusts and
private hospitals.
Job
Centre Plus – Search all vacancies currently advertised by
JobcentrePlus
Sussex Jobs Today – Local job information for Sussex from the regional
newspapers including search function
Wired Sussex – Search for media related jobs advertised by Wired
Sussex, the business development agency for digital companies in Sussex.
Job Nut – internet search engine of
jobs in UK Sussex Connexions – search the Connexions directory for local Jobcentre
Plus contact details as well as other services
Agora
Development – a specilised recruitment service for graduates
in Sussex, bridging the gap between graduates and employers.
Gatwick Airport has a variety of roles available.
For further information,
click
here for details.
According to the Office of National Statistics,
VAT registration data is the best official guide
to the number of businesses, and the pattern of
business start-ups and closures across the UK and
in each industry.
In Sussex, the total
stocks of VAT registered businesses numbered
52,590 (ONS NOMIS): 17,030
in East Sussex; 26,825 in West Sussex; and 8,560
in Brighton & Hove. ‘Total stocks’ provides
an indicator of the size of the business population.
Since over 99 per cent of registered enterprises
employ fewer than 50 people, it is also a useful
indicator of the small business population.
The chart below shows the change in VAT registrations
for the year ending 2005 (latest data) for Sussex
by broad industrial sector. Change in VAT registrations
shows the net change (registrations minus de-registrations
in the calendar year).
The absolute net changes to VAT registrations
in Sussex are generally positive (increases)
or around 50 businesses per sector per Local
Authority area.
Notably, East Sussex saw a net increase of 90
VAT registered in Wholesale, Retail & Repair;
Brighton saw a net increase 85 businesses in
Real Estate, Renting and Business Activities;
and West Sussex saw a net increase of 75 registrations
for the Hotels and Restaurants sector. However,
West Sussex also saw a very large net decrease
in the total stock of VAT registered businesses
in the Public Administration, and Other Community,
Social and Personal Services sector. This highlights
a reduction in the number of individual businesses
in this sector, but may not necessarily mean
a reduction in the number of jobs, as one factor
could be consolidation of several smaller businesses
into one larger group, which is not unusual for
businesses such as care homes.
For
more regional data on VAT registrations click
here
Vacancies (Jobcentre Plus) by occupation are shown in the graph below for Great Britain and the South East. In total, in January 2008 the South East had over 23,834 vacancies, and there were almost 194,349 in Great Britain as a whole. By the far the highest proportion of vacancies notified with Jobcentre Plus are in Elementary Occupations.
Source: ONS, NOMIS
Vacancies by occupation are broken down in the graph below for the local authority areas of Sussex.
Source: ONS, NOMIS
By far the greatest proportion of vacancies notified in the region during January was Elementary Occupations (25.1%). However, these roles represented a far smaller proportion of vacancies in Brighton & Hove (12.7%).
Other significant variations from the regional breakdown of vacancies by occupation for local authority areas in Sussex include:
A much greater than average proportion of notified vacancies in Sales and Customer Service Occupations in Brighton & Hove (48.5% compared with 20.5% regionally).
Double the proportion of vacancies in Associate Professional and Technical Occupations in East Sussex (20.0%).
A greater than average proportion of Process, Plant and Machine Operatives vacancies in West Sussex (11.5%).
The most recent figures for the Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) Claimant Count have been released by NOMIS, the Office of National Statistics.
The claimant count records the number of people claiming JSA and National Insurance credits at Job Centre Plus local offices. Although the figures are not an official measure of unemployment, they are the only indicative statistics available for smaller scale areas.
For information, working age is defined as 16-64 for males and 16-60 for females, and working age population figures are derived from mid-year population estimates which are compatible with the 2001 Census.
The graph below highlights that within Sussex as a whole, 1.7% of working age population are claiming JSA. Brighton and Hove has the highest figure with 2.7%, whilst West Sussex has the lowest figure at 1.1%.
Source – ONS, JSA Claimant Counts-Rates and Proportions July 2007
The actual number of claimants of working age population are as follows:
• Brighton and Hove 4,613
• East Sussex 5,122
• West Sussex 4,968
For national and regional information on JSA Claimant Counts please click here
New information on NVQ levels of the working age population have been released from the Annual Population Survey. Four out of five (82.7%) people of working age in the South East have at least a level one qualification. The figures indicate that there are 865,300 people of working age in the South East that do not have at least an NVQ level one qualification.
The information shows that in Sussex:
84.3% of the working age population are qualified to at least NVQ level one in Sussex, compared with 82.7% for the South East
69.3% of people of working age in Sussex have at least a level 2 qualification, compared with 68% for the South East
50.4% of the working age population in Sussex is qualified to at least NVQ level 3, compared with 49.4% in the South East
30.2% have at least level 4 in Sussex compared with 30.5% of people of working age in the South East.
Source: ONS, Annual Population Survey Jan – Dec 2006 (latest data).
The most recent figures for the estimated resident population have been released. The estimated resident population of an area includes all people who usually live there, whatever their nationality. Students are taken to be resident at their term time address. The population estimates are based on the Census of Population (2001) and calculated annually – the previous years’ population is ‘aged on’ by one year, with births added and deaths removed. There is also an adjustment for net migration. This adjustment is the most difficult to estimate accurately, and can affect some areas with high migration more than others.
The population of Sussex is estimated at 1,528,500. The population for the South East is estimated at 8,237,800; 50,762,900 for England; and almost 59 million for Great Britain (ONS, August 2007). These estimates suggest that the region’s population has increased by 73,600 in twelve months, an increase of 0.9%. For more information on the South East estimates please see Regional Data.
The graphs below show the population estimates for the local authority districts in Sussex.
Source: ONS, Mid-year population estimates June 2006 (latest data)
Source: ONS, Mid-year population estimates June 2006 (latest data)
The regional employment structure in Sussex differs from that of the national economy as a whole. A slightly higher proportion of the working age employees in Sussex work in some form of service industry than in the South East and Great Britain as a whole: 80.1% in Sussex, compared with 78.1% regionally and 76.2% nationally. The graph below shows that:
• A slightly higher percentage of the Sussex working age population is employed in Public Administration, Education and Health (29.9%) compared to the South East regional figure of 27.4%.
• Just one in ten (9.6%) of the Sussex working age population in employment are based in Manufacturing, which is lower than the national figure of 13.1%.
(Source: ONS, NOMIS, Annual Population Survey, latest data, January 2006 to December 2006)
Community Service Volunteers
The CSV (Community Service Volunteers) Hotline
is available for students who want to take a gap
year. CSV offers UK based gap years lasting between
4 months to a year, where volunteers live away
from home with free accommodation, food and travel
expenses on top of a weekly allowance. More information
is available on 0800 374 991 or on http://www.csv.org.uk/gapyear
Volunteers Needed
The Horsham branch of The Guide Dogs for the Blind
Association is seeking volunteers to fill the following
roles: trading secretary, collection box coordinator,
drivers and administrators. For further details contact
Mary Richardson on 07990 540267 or email mary.richardson@guide-dogs.org.uk.
Volunteer Centres can
provide information to organisations
seeking volunteers as
well as details of current volunteering
vacancies. For more information visit
theVolunteer Development Agency websiteor
contact one of the centres
www.do-it.org.uk – search
almost 70,000 volunteering opportunties
and apply online. Click here for
a special feature about overseas volunteer opportunities with information
for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
New figures from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings have been released. The chart below shows gross annual earnings for full-time workers in Brighton and Hove, West Sussex and East Sussex. The figures have been compared with those of the South East region and England as a whole. Earnings across Sussex: Brighton and Hove (£23,295); West Sussex (£23,354); and East Sussex (£22,131), are lower than the national and regional averages (£24,402 and £25,547 respectively). Click here to visit the website for more information
Source – ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2007 (latest data)
The chart below shows that there are disparities between male and female earnings across Sussex. However in Brighton and Hove the gender pay gap is just £884, whereas in West and East Sussex disparities are much more considerable (£5,309 and £3,996). In England the difference between average male and female annual earnings is £6,070 and the South East region it is £7,244.
Source – ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2007 (latest data)
The
Annual Business Inquiry is a business survey
that collects employment and financial information.
The information on employee figures was found
to be more accurate than the Annual Employment
Survey.
The ABI is a sample survey. The exercise surveys on average 78,000 reporting
units. The survey form asks for the total number of employee jobs over the whole
business. These jobs are then apportioned over the organisation’s known
sites to generate sub-national data.
The following table provides an indication of the number of employees by industrial
sector in Sussex.
ABI – Numbers of Employees by Industrial
Sector – Sussex
Industry
Numbers
Agriculture
and Fishing (SIC A,B)
2,783
Energy
and water (SIC C,E)
2,057
Manufacturing
(SIC D)
70,003
Construction
(SIC F)
29,207
Distribution,
hotels and restaurants (SIC G,H)
162,492
Transport
and communications (SIC I)
41,476
Banking,
finance and insurance, etc (SIC J,K)
114,000
Public
administration, education & health (SIC
L,M,N)
156,208
Other services
(SIC O,P,Q)
31,483
Source:
ABI (2005– latest data) ONS: NOMIS
The distribution of employment across the sectors
in Sussex and the South East as a whole is provided
in the chart below.
Source: ABI (2005– latest
data) ONS: NOMIS
While the distribution of employees
across industries in Sussex is broadly similar
to that of the South East as a whole, Sussex has
a slightly higher proportion of jobs in Public
Administration, Education and Health than seen
regionally, and a slightly lower proportion of
jobs in Banking, Finance and Insurance.
The following chart shows comparative data between the Local Authority areas
of Sussex. The percentages are a percentage of all employees in all sectors.
Source: ABI (2005– latest
data) ONS: NOMIS
The ABI employee data show
that across Sussex as a whole, Transport and Communications
accounts for less than one in ten of all employees.
The proportional importance of Banking, Finance and Insurance in the labour markets
of Sussex varies considerably between districts: being particularly dominant
in Brighton & Hove due to the location of large offices of major financial
organisations in these areas (in these districts, around one in three jobs are
in this industry).
Similarly, the proportion of employment in each district within Public Administration,
Education and Health varies widely, accounting for just over a quarter of employment
across the county.
While only small variations can be seen between most districts in Sussex in terms
of the proportional dominance of Distribution, Hotels & Restaurants in the
labour market, this industry has a greater proportion of employees in East Sussex
than anywhere else in Sussex.
The greatest concentrations proportionally of Manufacturing jobs in Sussex are
based in East Sussex, while in Brighton & Hove, Manufacturing represents
a much lower than average proportion of employment.
These wide data are of use for advice to both adults and young people as a broad
descriptor of which sectors offer the most employment in the region.
