U.K.

Employment Trends Report

April 2011

Press Contact:
Annie Klein
(020) 8432 4686
SimplyHiredUK@schwartzcomm.com
U.K. Nationwide and Regional Outlook
HIGHLIGHTS
• UK sees incremental decrease in job vacancies. “The UK’s manufacturing sector experienced
a seven-month low in April,” said Gautam Godhwani, CEO of SimplyHired.com. “This slowdown,
combined with the Easter and Royal Wedding holidays, contributed to a 1.5% decrease in job
vacancies across the country.”

• Swansea, Belfast, Aberdeen experience high job growth. The top cities for job creation in
April were all outside of England, with Swansea showing the highest rate of job growth at 18.9%.
Belfast, at 16.2% growth, and Aberdeen, at 14.5% growth, followed closely behind.

• Brighton job vacancies drop more than 30%. Despite Britain’s early summer and record high
temperatures during the month of April, summer hot spot Brighton did not see a corresponding
increase in seasonal jobs. The city saw the largest decrease in job vacancies at 31.2%.

Job Vacancies, Nationwide

▼ 1.5% month-over-month
(from March 2011)

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Job Vacancies by Regional Area (ranked by Population)
Number of job vacancies listed on SimplyHired.co.uk in the top 50 regional areas

POPULATION JOB VACANCIES

REGIONAL AREA
RANK (month-over-month)

1 London (ENG) 0.4%

2 Birmingham (ENG) 3.0%
3 Glasgow (Scot) -6.9%
4 Liverpool (ENG) 5.5%
5 Leeds (ENG) -12.6%
6 Sheffield (ENG) 2.2%
7 Edinburgh (Scot) 3.6%
8 Bristol (ENG) -13.1%
9 Manchester (ENG) -1.3%
10 Leicester (ENG) 2.1%
11 Coventry (ENG) 5.6%
12 Bradford (ENG) -24.2%
13 Cardiff (Wales) 3.7%
14 Belfast (NIR) 16.2%
15 Newcastle upon Tyne (ENG) 1.2%
16 Stoke-on-Trent (ENG) 7.0%
17 Wolverhampton (ENG) 2.2%
18 Nottingham (ENG) -9.9%
19 Plymouth (ENG) 1.9%
20 Southampton (ENG) 2.7%
21 Reading (ENG) -0.2%
22 Derby (ENG) 4.6%
23 Aberdeen (Scot) 14.5%
24 Dudley (ENG) 3.9%
25 Northampton (ENG) -1.6%

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POPULATION JOB VACANCIES

REGIONAL AREA
RANK (month-over-month)

26 Portsmouth (ENG) 1.2%

27 Luton (ENG) 9.2%
28 Preston (ENG) -5.3%
29 Milton Keynes (ENG) 1.4%
30 Sunderland (ENG) 3.3%
31 Norwich (ENG) -1.7%
32 Walsall (ENG) 6.0%
33 Swansea (Wales) 18.9%
34 Bournemouth (ENG) 2.4%
35 Southend-on-Sea (ENG) -10.0%
36 Swindon (ENG) 8.2%
37 Dundee (Scot) 10.0%
38 Huddersfield (ENG) -5.2%
39 Oxford (ENG) -3.8%
40 Blackpool (ENG) -1.8%
41 Bolton (ENG) 11.1%
42 Ipswich (ENG) -2.8%
43 Telford (ENG) -0.5%
44 York (ENG) -10.7%
45 Peterborough (ENG) 2.1%
46 Stockport (ENG) 5.0%
47 Brighton (ENG) -31.2%
48 Slough (ENG) 4.0%
49 Gloucester (ENG) -22.7%
50 Watford (ENG) 7.3%

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 About the U.K. Employment Trends Report

The UK Employment Trends Report is a monthly summary and analysis of employment

trends in the United Kingdom. These findings are based on monthly job seeker activity on
SimplyHired.co.uk, which aggregates millions of listings from over 30,000 employment
sites. Some findings may be projected from recent historical data. Data may not be
representative of all industries, occupations and/or metro areas.

About Simply Hired

With over eight million job listings, Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.co.uk) is the world’s
largest job search engine—25 times the size of the biggest job board. Servicing 16 million
monthly users across 23 countries, the company powers jobs on over 10,000 network
partner sites, including LinkedIn, CNNMoney, The Washington Post and BusinessWeek.
Reaching passive as well as active candidates, the Simply Hired network delivers millions
of targeted job applicants and boasts one of the lowest cost-per-hire rates in the industry.
The company is based in Mountain View, California and is funded by Foundation Capital
and IDG Ventures.

Contact Information

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SimplyHiredUK@schwartzcomm.com

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