What jobs are hard to fill UK

During the first month of 2022, there was a continuing lack of qualified applicants for occupations with a high demand. For direct employers, the roles of care assistant, support worker, customer service manager, nurse, and kitchen assistant were the ones that were the most difficult to fill. This fact should be taken into consideration.

According to Job Market Insights, the sectors with the greatest labor shortage in January were health care, hospitality and catering, social and civil services, logistics, and customer service. This was the case across all job categories.

The rate of increase in the need for employees has slowed down in recent months, with 1 million positions being advertised in January. This is a level that was achieved in June 2021 for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic and has been constant since then. Despite this, the number of open positions that were difficult to fill remained quite high, but with some notable shifts. In January, the number of open opportunities in the job categories of logistics and retail decreased, while the number of open positions in the job categories of social services and health increased, and the number of open positions in hospitality remained unchanged.

With the use of this extensive information, recruiters are able to find hot leads, which are jobs and businesses that are in urgent need of competent individuals.

Top Job Titles That Will Be Difficult to Fill in January 2022

Care assistant

Support worker

The manager of customer service

Nurse

Kitchen assistant

The Most Challenging Job Categories to Fill in January 2022

Health

Hospitality and Food Service

Social & Civil Services

Logistics and Supply Chain Distribution

Assistance to customers

Warm Leads Broken Down by Job Category

The scarcity of care assistants that was noticed in the previous months continued to be a problem in January, as health occupations made up 12 percent of all positions that were difficult to fill.

Jobs in the Health Sector That Are Difficult to Fill in January 2022

Care assistant

Nurse

Dental nurse

Although the Hospitality and Catering employment sector is still having trouble filling all of the available jobs after the relaxation of Covid limitations, the wages that were being given for positions that were difficult to fill were lower than the category average. There are almost fifty percent of these openings that offer incomes of twenty thousand pounds or less.

Jobs That Are Difficult to Fill in the Hospitality and Catering Industry in January 2022

Kitchen assistant

Chef

Barista

The top categories of occupations that are difficult to fill have seen a minor decline in the area of logistics and distribution. Despite this, there was a significant lack of available drivers.

Hard-to-Fill Jobs in January 2022 in the Fields of Logistics and Distribution: Delivery Driver

operative in the warehouse

Bicycle messenger (food & grocery deliveries)

What are some of the roles that recruiting companies are having trouble filling?

When it comes to filling positions, recruiting firms spend the most time working on openings in the fields of engineering, education, information technology, and logistics.

In January of 2022, the five roles that were the most difficult for recruiters to fill were those of warehouse operative, teaching assistant, customer service advisor, production operative, and support worker respectively.

Methodology and the original source

This research is based on data provided by Job Market Insights, a labor market intelligence service that compiles information from the most prominent job boards and employment sites located around the United Kingdom. Vacancies that are considered hard to fill are those that have been listed on paid sites many times, with at least two weeks of downtime in between each posting.

Job Market Insights is a big data analytics platform that offers a comprehensive perspective on the job market from every angle. It is a REC Business Partner, and some of the REC's members already utilize it to better analyze, compare, and understand employment patterns; to determine who is hiring; to watch the behavior of competitors; and to uncover business possibilities with reliable, up-to-date information. Adevinta is the world's biggest online ads specialist, and Job Market Insights is a division of the company. Adevinta operates digital marketplaces in 15 countries.