As of November 2022, approximately 58.7 percent of people in employment in the United Kingdom had a weekly working week of between 31 and 45 hours, compared with 15.4 percent who worked more than 45 hours.
Usual weekly hours of work for people in employment the United Kingdom from February 1995 to November 2022, by hours worked
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Statistics on Employment in the UK
Employment
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- Basic Statistic Number of people employed in the UK 1971-2021
- Basic Statistic Employment rate in the UK 1971-2021
- Premium Statistic Employment rate in the UK in 2022, by region
- Premium Statistic Number of private sector employees in the UK 1999-2022
- Premium Statistic Number of people employed in the private sector in the UK 2022, by sector
- Basic Statistic Number of public sector employees in the UK 1999-2022
- Basic Statistic Number of public sector employees UK 2022, by industry
- Basic Statistic Number of jobs in the UK 1959-2022
Unemployment
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- Basic Statistic Unemployment rate of the UK 1971-2022
- Basic Statistic Number of people unemployed in the UK 1971-2022
- Premium Statistic Unemployment rate in the UK 2022, by region
- Premium Statistic Unemployment rate in the UK 1971-2022, by gender
- Premium Statistic Unemployment rate in the UK 1992-2022, by age group
- Premium Statistic Youth unemployment rate in the UK 1992-2022
- Basic Statistic Number of job vacancies in the UK 2001-2022
- Premium Statistic Number of redundancies in the UK 1995-2022
Labor force
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- Basic Statistic Overall weekly hours worked in the UK 1971-2022
- Basic Statistic Number of full-time workers in the UK 1992-2022
- Basic Statistic Number of part-time workers in the UK 1992-2022
- Premium Statistic Number of temporary workers in the UK 1992-2022
- Basic Statistic Number of self-employed workers in the UK 1992-2022
- Basic Statistic Number of flexible working contract employees UK 2022, by type
Wages and earnings
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- Basic Statistic Average annual earnings for full-time employees in the UK 1999-2022
- Basic Statistic Average annual earnings for full-time employees in the UK 1999-2022, by gender
- Basic Statistic Average annual earnings for full-time employees in the UK 2004-2022, by age group
- Basic Statistic Average annual earnings for full-time employees in the UK 2022, by region
- Basic Statistic Average annual earnings for part-time employees in the UK 1999-2022
- Premium Statistic Average weekly earning growth in the UK 2001-2022
Impact of COVID-19
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- Premium Statistic Cumulative number of jobs furloughed under the job retention scheme UK 2020-2021
- Premium Statistic Value of claims made by companies from the job retention scheme in the UK 2020-2021
- Premium Statistic Number of employers using the job retention scheme in the UK 2020-2021
- Premium Statistic Daily number of jobs furloughed in the UK 2020-2021
- Premium Statistic Daily number of jobs furloughed in the UK 2020-2021, by gender
- Premium Statistic Daily number of jobs furloughed in the UK 2020-2021, by age group
- Premium Statistic Number of claims made to the self-employment support scheme in the UK 2021
- Premium Statistic Value of claims made to the self-employment support scheme in the UK 2021
Further related statistics
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- Usual weekly hours of work for women in the UK 1995-2022, by weekly hours
- Canadian attitudes to reducing standard work hours 2018, by gender
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by gender
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by region
- Canadian attitudes to reducing standard work hours 2018, by age group
- Support for a four-day working week in Russia 2022, by age
- Canadian attitudes to reducing standard work hours 2018
- Support for a four-day working week in Russia in 2019, by area
- Preferred working hours for United Kingdom (UK) adults in 2018
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by age group
- U.S. average working week monthly average December 2022, by industry
- Support for a four day working week in selected European countries in 2019
- Average length of U.S. working week 2007-2021
- U.S. monthly average working week of all employees 2021-2022
- Average hours worked per week by U.S. workers 2001-2014, by employment type
- Average weekly working hours in China 2006-2016
- Average number of hours per work-week in Sweden 2016, by class
- Distribution of weekly working hours of food delivery drivers in Taiwan 2020, by type
- Average number of weekly hours worked in the U.S. and USSR 1970-1988
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- Canadian attitudes to reducing standard work hours 2018, by gender
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by gender
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- Canadian attitudes to reducing standard work hours 2018, by age group
- Support for a four-day working week in Russia 2022, by age
- Canadian attitudes to reducing standard work hours 2018
- Support for a four-day working week in Russia in 2019, by area
- Preferred working hours for United Kingdom (UK) adults in 2018
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by age group
- U.S. average working week monthly average December 2022, by industry
- Support for a four day working week in selected European countries in 2019
- Average length of U.S. working week 2007-2021
- U.S. monthly average working week of all employees 2021-2022
- Average hours worked per week by U.S. workers 2001-2014, by employment type
- Average weekly working hours in China 2006-2016
- Average number of hours per work-week in Sweden 2016, by class
- Distribution of weekly working hours of food delivery drivers in Taiwan 2020, by type
- Average number of weekly hours worked in the U.S. and USSR 1970-1988
Office for National Statistics (UK). (January 17, 2023). Usual weekly hours of work for people in employment the United Kingdom from February 1995 to November 2022, by hours worked [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 27, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/280810/uk-usual-weekly-hours-of-work-by-hours/
Office for National Statistics (UK). "Usual weekly hours of work for people in employment the United Kingdom from February 1995 to November 2022, by hours worked." Chart. January 17, 2023. Statista. Accessed January 27, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/280810/uk-usual-weekly-hours-of-work-by-hours/
Office for National Statistics (UK). (2023). Usual weekly hours of work for people in employment the United Kingdom from February 1995 to November 2022, by hours worked. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 27, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/280810/uk-usual-weekly-hours-of-work-by-hours/
Office for National Statistics (UK). "Usual Weekly Hours of Work for People in Employment The United Kingdom from February 1995 to November 2022, by Hours Worked." Statista, Statista Inc., 17 Jan 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/280810/uk-usual-weekly-hours-of-work-by-hours/
Office for National Statistics (UK), Usual weekly hours of work for people in employment the United Kingdom from February 1995 to November 2022, by hours worked Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/280810/uk-usual-weekly-hours-of-work-by-hours/ (last visited January 27, 2023)
Usual weekly hours of work for people in employment the United Kingdom from February 1995 to November 2022, by hours worked [Graph], Office for National Statistics (UK), January 17, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/280810/uk-usual-weekly-hours-of-work-by-hours/