Job Market Competition

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

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