Trends in HR and recruitment vacancies in the UK

Source

Numbers come from Jobfeed, Textkernel's searchable job database for lead generation, competitive insight and labour market analysis. For this analysis, more than 30 million vacancy postings published in 2016 have been analysed, categorised and de-duplicated. We identified 260,518 HR and recruitment vacancies excluding franchises, internships/graduate positions, voluntary work, freelance jobs and apprenticeships, on which these analyses have been performed.

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HR and recruitment vacancies per quarter

Distribution by role

Market share of HR and recruitment vacancies per country

HR vacancies (unique)

260,518 949,471 HR vacancy postings (including duplicates)

35,000

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

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HR support and payroll administrationRecruitment HR Training and career development

MarketingSourcing

Social Media

Branding

Candidateexperience

Talent management

Talent acquisitionRPO

Big dataEmployer branding

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Buzzwords

2016

Q1 2016 Q2 2016 Q3 2016 Q4 2016

Recruitment

HR

Training andcareer development

Recruitment adviseris the most

advertised position

2016

10%

19%

28%

43%

HR support andpayroll administration

In the last half of 2016, there was an increase in recruitment vacancies

Candidate journey

Top 5 regions

London

Birmingham

Manchester

Hertfordshire

Surrey

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2

3

4

5

Wales 1.8%

England 93.2%

Northern Ireland 1.3%

Scotland 3.7%

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