What jobs are in demand at the moment?

According to a recent research, the most in-demand professions in the United Kingdom right now are those in the fields of nursing, information technology, and truck driving.

Experts have cautioned that today's businesses are facing the most severe difficulty in terms of finding qualified candidates in the last 20 years.

According to the most recent statistics released by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), there were 1.66 million open positions in the workforce at the end of August (REC).

According to the report, this is the result of a rising confidence in the nation's ability to successfully combat the coronavirus epidemic, which has led firms to embark on a hiring binge.

According to the REC, the number of available positions is expected to continue growing over the next several months.

Neil Carberry, Chief Executive Officer of the REC, Said: "The existing labor crisis was exacerbated in August by the fact that the number of workers who were available to begin new positions plummeted at yet another record-setting pace.

"These data demonstrate that recruiters are working nonstop to place an all-time high number of individuals into career opportunities. The seasonal activation of the whole economy throughout the summer has resulted in a one-of-a-kind surge in demand as well as a temporary problem."

The 10 occupations with the most demand at the present time

100,000 jobs available for truck drivers.

Nurses - 79,123

68 929 are employed as programmers and software developers.

Carers - 49,751

Staff members employed by elementary and nursery schools total 30,574

Chefs - 29,996

Sales assistants - 26,183

Those Who Clean - 24,148

Metal working positions - 19,748

6,364 individuals working as carpenters and joiners

Aside from the recent surge in employment, jobs in a variety of fields are in particularly high demand right now as a result of the epidemic and Brexit.

The majority of the labor shortage may be attributed to the fact that Europeans must contend with an excessive amount of bureaucracy in order to find employment in the UK following Brexit.

Claire Warnes, who oversees education at KPMG and is responsible for productivity and skills development, predicts that the issue will continue to worse.

In her words: "This situation is not going away, and the winding down of the furlough program at the end of September – although it may bring more job seekers to the market, it also has the potential to add gasoline to the fire of the labor shortage.

Because of this, a considerable percentage of employees returning from furlough may need to undergo retraining in order to reenter the workforce in the same or a different industry after the pandemic. "Many organizations will have modified their business model during the epidemic,"

In addition, the Road Haulage Association (RHA) has claimed that there is a shortfall of 100,000 HGV drivers throughout the UK, which has led to gaps on shelves as a result of major delays in delivery.

Morrisons said yesterday that it anticipates the scarcity of truck drivers in the UK would contribute to an increase in inflation over the next several months.

In its earnings report for the first half of the year, released on Thursday, the grocery chain warned of "industry-wide" price increases while reporting a 43 percent loss in profits.

According to the announcement made by the fourth-largest grocery chain in the United Kingdom, the price rises would be "motivated by continuing recent commodity price increases and freight inflation, as well as the present lack of HGV drivers."

On the other hand, it said that it planned to work toward mitigating them as well as any other possible cost increases, such as those that would be incurred in the process of maintaining excellent product availability.