Job Market Competition

Job Seekers per Job Posting

How hard is it to find a job in your city? Here's the number of job seekers per job posting
for the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the U.K.
To discover which cities have the most job postings per inhabitant view the Job Postings Per Capita map.

Updated November 2012

Rank	Change	Metropolitian Area	Job Postings vs Unemployed Persons		Ratio
1	2	Guildford			4:1
2		Reading			3:1
3	-2	Cambridge			3:1
4		Oxford			3:1
5	2	Southampton			2:1
6		Milton Keynes			2:1
7	2	Huddersfield			1:1
8	12	Crawley			1:1
9	-4	Bournemouth			1:1
10	1	Preston			1:1
11	2	Bradford			1:1
12	-2	Blackburn			1:1
13	3	Maidstone			1:1
14		London			1:1
15		Bristol			1:1
16	3	Wirral			1:1
17	1	Brighton			1:1
18	19	Ipswich			1:1
19	6	Leeds			1:1
20	2	Sunderland			1:1
21		Edinburgh			1:1
22	4	Northampton			1:1
23	-6	York			1:1
24	5	Stoke-on-Trent			1:1
25	-2	Coventry			1:1
26	5	Wakefield			1:1
27	-19	Blackpool			1:1
28	14	Luton			1:1
29	4	Norwich			1:1
30	-2	Derby			1:1
31	5	Manchester			1:1
32	-8	Swindon			1:1
33	-3	Birmingham			1:1
34	-22	Portsmouth			1:1
35	4	Leicester			1:2
36	-2	Doncaster			1:2
37	3	Sheffield			1:2
38		Cardiff			1:2
39	-7	Southend			1:2
40	-13	Nottingham			1:2
41	-6	Plymouth			1:2
42	2	Liverpool			1:2
43	-2	Newcastle			1:2
44	-1	Glasgow			1:3
45	2	Warrington			1:3
46		Middlesbrough			1:4
47	1	Belfast			1:4
48	1	Hull			1:5
49	-4	Rochdale			1:5
50		Lanarkshire			1:6

Based on October 2012 Jobseekers Allowance claimant count provided by the Government Department for Work and Pensions.