United Kingdom (UK): information & communication sector number of employees 2018

The number of employees in the information and communication industry in the United Kingdom dropped to 1,244,913 employees in 2018. This means a decline by 56,415 employees in comparison to the previous year. This decrease was preceded by an increasing number of employees in this industry.

The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.
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Total number of employees in the information and communication industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2018

Characteristic	Number of employees
2018	1,244,913
2017	1,301,328
2016b	1,250,666
2015	1,219,747
2014	1,170,632
2013	1,097,146
2012	1,050,194
2011	1,056,741
2010	1,008,375
2009	1,009,145

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Release date

February 2022

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2009 to 2018

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to code J of NACE Rev 2.

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