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Beyond the Pitch: The Growing Jobs Footprint of UK Professional Football

Jack Kennedy - 12 August 2026
Football clubs have picked up their hiring, nearly tripling their jobs footprint in recent years. Data analysts, commercial strategists and digital producers are the kinds of roles increasingly joining coaches and catering staff on club payrolls.
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Sports medicine and rehabilitation staff sit within the broader

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Stethoscopes Without Borders: The Global Race for Healthcare Talent

Callam Pickering & Sneha Puri - 30 July 2026
Countries that can attract and retain internationally trained healthcare workers will be best placed to address workforce shortages over the next decade-plus.

AI Is No Longer Just a Tech Occupation Story: It’s Spreading Across Job Titles in the US and Europe

Pawel Adrjan - 8 July 2026
Employers on both sides of the Atlantic are writing AI into job titles for a wide range of roles - not just software and data jobs.

Labour Market Updates

Indeed’s 2026 Mid-Year UK Jobs & Hiring Trends Report: A Labour Market Under Pressure – And in Transition

Jack Kennedy - 3 August 2026
Hiring demand slides as structural shifts reshape the UK labour market.
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Younger UK workers face the toughest hiring market in years — but many are actively repositioning toward AI-adjacent skills as the labour market undergoes a deeper structural shift.

July 2026 European Labour Market Chartbook

Indeed Hiring Lab - 27 July 2026
Stabilisation in labour demand, which was hinted at toward the end of 2025, is now a distant memory in Europe.
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June 2026 UK Labour Market Update: Job Postings Continue to Slide

Jack Kennedy - 24 June 2026
Persistently weak hiring demand continues to weigh on the UK labour market.
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With UK job postings continuing to slide and employer confidence near lows, more workers are spending time scanning a job market that has fewer openings to offer.

June 2026 European Labour Market Chartbook

Indeed Hiring Lab - 24 June 2026
Labour demand has fallen across Europe since the start of the year.
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European Labour Market Chartbook June 2026

May 2026 UK Labour Market Update: Slow Summer Hiring Another Blow for Young Workers

Jack Kennedy - 2 June 2026
Summer job postings are tracking below prior years, spelling yet fewer avenues for British youth in a tough labour market.
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Remote and hybrid roles have become a key entry point for young job seekers — but with summer postings tracking below prior years, openings of any kind are getting harder to come by.

May 2026 European Labour Market Chartbook

Indeed Hiring Lab - 27 May 2026
Inflationary pressures from the global energy price shock have started to show in the European data, eroding real wage gains.
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State of the Labour Market
UK Employment Figures, July 2026: Stable But Weak
Line chart titled “ Youth unemployment rising faster than overall rate” showing the rates of overall and 16-24 unemployment from 1995 to 2026. Youth unemployment is at its highest in over a decade at 16.4%.
Jack Kennedy - 21 July 2026
Line chart titled “ Youth unemployment rising faster than overall rate” showing the rates of overall and 16-24 unemployment from 1995 to 2026. Youth unemployment is at its highest in over a decade at 16.4%.
Occupation Spotlight
European Defence Firms Are Still Hiring While UK Job Seekers Remain Uninterested
A person in a white hard hat walks down a wide blue and yellow walkway across a large industrial manufacturing floor lined with massive rolls of metal sheeting, overhead cranes, and steel framework.
Virginia Sondergeld - 22 June 2026
A person in a white hard hat walks down a wide blue and yellow walkway across a large industrial manufacturing floor lined with massive rolls of metal sheeting, overhead cranes, and steel framework.
State of the Labour Market
UK Employment Figures, June 2026: Signs Of Stabilising Despite Continued Weakness
Jack Kennedy - 18 June 2026
State of the Labour Market
UK Employment Figures, May 2026: Labour Market Deterioration Deepens as Costs and Conflict Bite
Line chart comparing UK nominal and real (CPIH-adjusted) year-on-year growth in regular pay from the early 2000s through March 2026. The nominal line stays above the real line throughout, with both spiking after 2020 before declining; nominal growth ends at 3.4% and real growth at 0.1% as of March 2026.
Jack Kennedy - 19 May 2026
Line chart comparing UK nominal and real (CPIH-adjusted) year-on-year growth in regular pay from the early 2000s through March 2026. The nominal line stays above the real line throughout, with both spiking after 2020 before declining; nominal growth ends at 3.4% and real growth at 0.1% as of March 2026.
Pay and Benefits
Full Salary Transparency in Europe is Still a Distant Prospect
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Lisa Feist - 7 May 2026
Close-up of a person in a dress shirt and tie leaning over a desk covered in printed charts, graphs, and data reports, pointing to one with a pen. Two laptops and a calculator are visible on either side.
State of the Labour Market
April 2026 European Labour Market Chartbook
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Indeed Hiring Lab - 6 May 2026
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