This section of the website provides the latest skills and employment data available for London. The data is available at a regional level and, where it exists, for boroughs and five sub-regions. You can grab or print the contents of these pages, download the raw data and Benchmarker for your own use, or use our mapping tool online. All material (including downloads and tools) is regularly updated, when the latest data becomes publicly available.
Compare data for London with other regions, or for different boroughs and sub-regions in London.
Download our quarterly labour market review & update, an at-a-glance guide to London’s labour market based on the latest data available.
Latest data
In the quarter to December 2011, the employment rate of working age men in London was 73.4% , which is 1.9 percentage points lower than the rate for the UK (75.3%).
The male employment rate fell by 1.4 percentage points compared to the previous quarter. The national rate increased by 0.2 percentage points over the same period.
A quick and simple introduction to some of the terms commonly used in the areas of skills and employment.