Buckinghamshire Job Vacancies Overview - March 2021
Monthly job posting trends in Buckinghamshire from 2020 to 2021 show fluctuations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Job postings declined during the initial lockdown but gradually rose to pre-pandemic levels until a second lockdown caused a slight dip. Comparisons with 2019 highlight variations in recruitment activity across different districts in Buckinghamshire. Despite overall lower job postings, areas like Aylesbury Vale saw milder decreases due to strong public sector presence.
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Job Vacancies within Buckinghamshire March 2021
Background This slide deck provides a monthly summary of recruitment trends within Buckinghamshire. Data is sourced from Burning Glass Technologies via the Labour Insight platform. Data is generated by scraping information from job adverts posted on-line Further details can be found here. To monitor the impact of Covid-19 on the labour market, and track the speed of economic recovery, data within this report is either benchmarked against Quarter 1 (January to March) 2020, or is benchmarked against the corresponding month in 2019. Further details, including some caveats to be aware are, can be found at the end of this slide deck.
Monthly Job Postings: 2020-21 7,000 700,000 Buckinghamshire England 6,000 600,000 5,000 500,000 4,000 400,000 3,000 300,000 2,000 200,000 1,000 100,000 - -
Monthly Job Postings: 2020-21 As with the national picture, job postings in Buckinghamshire declined significantly at the start of the first Covid-19 lockdown. From May 2020 to October 2020, the number of job postings (nationally and in Buckinghamshire) rose month on month. In October, the number of job postings returned to pre- pandemic levels. The second national lockdown initiated in early November 2020 brought a return to falling job posting numbers, however they remained at pre-pandemic levels in Buckinghamshire. December 2020 saw a drop in job posting numbers in Buckinghamshire, whereas numbers for England remained relatively level. This is to be expected as recruitment activity tends to be lower in December. Job postings increased at the start of 2021, however the number of job postings are lower compared to the start of 2020.
Recruitment activity tends to vary across the year, so how does 2021 & 2020 compare with 2019 on a month-by-month basis? 2019 2020 2021 7,000 Number of job postings 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 - Data for Buckinghamshire
Variation within Buckinghamshire Job postings in Buckinghamshire during March 2020 to February 2021 are lower overall compared to the previous year. The comparatively lower decrease for Aylesbury Vale could be related to the presence of large public sector employers. Within Buckinghamshire, Wycombe has had the largest fall in the number of job postings. Buckinghamshire s decline in job postings is lower compared to declines for the South East region and England as a whole Number of job postings Mar 19-Feb 20 Mar 20-Feb 21 Change Change (%) Wycombe 19,180 15,180 -4,000 -21% Aylesbury Vale 11,720 11,450 -270 -2% South Bucks 3,970 3,410 -560 -14% Chiltern 3,800 3,750 -50 -1% Note some job postings state the job location as being Buckinghamshire only. These cannot therefore be coded to sub- areas. Hence why the data for Buckinghamshire is higher than the data for the four former districts combined. Buckinghamshire 53,570 47,560 -6,010 -11% South East England 1,105,080 926,090 -178,990 -16% England 5,536,230 4,757,990 -778,240 -14%
Top occupational groups by number of job postings February 2021 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Project Manager Office / Administrative Assistant Software Developer / Engineer Registered General Nurse (RGN) Lawyer Customer Service Representative Caregiver / Personal Care Aide Account Manager / Representative Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk Teaching Assistant Sales Manager Computer Support Specialist Accountant Financial Manager Civil Engineer Auditor Marketing Manager Care assistant Labourer / Material Handler Primary School Teacher Data / Data Mining Analyst Sales Representative Sales Assistant Production Worker Construction Helper / Worker Data for Buckinghamshire
Job creation: occupations with more job postings in Bucks in Q4 2020 than Q4 2019 0 50 100 150 200 250 Caregiver / Personal Care Aide Labourer / Material Handler Lawyer Teaching Assistant Warehouse / Inventory Associate Care assistant Auditor Registered General Nurse (RGN) General cleaner Primary School Teacher Accountant Construction Helper / Worker Nursing Assistant / Healthcare Assistant Delivery Driver Production Worker HGV / LGV Class 2 Driver Personal Financial Advisors Electronics Engineer Occupational Therapist HGV / LGV Class 1 Driver Scheduler / Operations Coordinator Landscaping / Groundskeeping Worker Health and social care roles (care in particular) Roles linked to increase in online retail (warehouse and driver roles) Teaching roles Legal and finance roles Some construction roles University Lecturer Healthcare Manager Property / Real Estate / Community Managers Land Surveyors Programme Manager Source: Labour Insight Nursery nurses, assistants and playworkers
Reduced demand: occupations with fewer job postings in Bucks in Q4 2020 than Q4 2019 -120 -100 -80 -60 -40 -20 0 Chef Credit Analyst / Authoriser Computer Support Specialist Office / Administrative Assistant Operations Manager Procurement Manager Human Resources / Labour Relations Specialist Sales Representative Automotive Service Technician / Mechanic Account Manager / Representative Web Developer Validation Engineer Marketing Representative Nanny / Babysitter Mechanical Engineer Food Service Team Member Graphic Designer / Desktop Publisher Waiter / Waitress Sales Manager Systems Analyst Customer Service Representative Veterinarian Receptionist Maid / Housekeeping Staff Primary and Secondary School Headteacher Market Research Analyst Computer Programmer Restaurant / Food Service Manager Hospitality (chefs, food service, waiting staff, housekeeping) HR / recruitment Computer (IT support, programmers, analysts) Office admin Sales and marketing Source: Labour Insight
Changing demand for skills baseline skills The chart shows the change in demand for the top baseline skills (as cited within job postings) between Quarter 1 (Jan-Mar) and Quarter 4 (Oct-Dec). Q1 Q4 Overall, there hasn t been a great deal of change. There has been a relative increase in demand for problem solving skills (9th to 6th), and building effective relationships skills (11th to 9th) And a relative decrease in demand for creativity (6th to 7th), and skills in Microsoft Office (7th to 12th).
Changing demand for skills specialist skills Q4 Q1 The chart shows the change in demand for the top specialised skills demand (as cited within job postings) between Quarter 1 (Jan- Mar) and Quarter 4 (Oct-Dec). There was a significant increase in demand for working with patient and/or condition: mental health (27th to 9th). Demand also increased for teamwork / collaboration (2nd to 1st), teaching (3rd to 2nd) and KPIs (8th to 7th). There were declines in demand for customer service (1st to 3rd), customer contact (9th to 10th) and business development (10th to 13th) skills.
Demand for computer and programming skills This table shows the top computer and programming skills featured in job postings for Buckinghamshire for the month of February 2021. Most sought computer and programming skills by Bucks employers National Growth Category Global Growth Category Four Microsoft Office suite programmes feature in the top five. Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Word SQL Software Development Customer Relationship Management (CRM) SAP AutoCAD Microsoft C# Growing Stable Stable Stable Stable Stable Growing Stable Stable Stable Stable Stable Stable Stable Demand for enterprise software SAP skills are growing both nationally and globally. Microsoft Excel and CRM skills are projected to grow nationally. Growing Stable Declining Growing Stable Declining Skills for programming language Microsoft C# are declining, both nationally and globally.
Some employers with the most job openings in Buckinghamshire Dec 2020 to Feb 2021 National Health Service Buckinghamshire County Council Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust Danaher Corporation Johnson & Johnson Around 45% of job postings in Buckinghamshire can be linked to a specific employer. Many employers chose not to provide their name when recruiting via a recruitment agency or job site. Softcat Plc Cera Care Dunbar Education The Fremantle Trust This table is therefore based on the 45% of job postings which can be linked to an employer ( visible employers) Buckinghamshire New University Checkatrade Limited Aggregator Network Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited Buckinghamshire College Group Visible employers with the most job openings for the last full quarter (Q4 Oct- Dec) are primarily in the Human Health and Social Work sector. Royal Air Force Mccormick Biffa This corresponds with the high proportionate number of job postings for the sector. Walgreens Boots Alliance Paradigm Housing Group JandJ Source: Burning Glass Technologies Note: 55% of records have been excluded because they do not include an employer. As a result, the chart above may not be representative of the full sample.
About the data Online job postings provide a useful, real-time indication of the characteristics and health of local labour markets. However, limitations of online job posting data include: Some jobs not commonly advertised online (e.g. those often filled through word-of-mouth or adverts in windows) The employer s name often not being included in the job posting, which makes it difficult to glean a complete picture of the top recruiting employers in an area, and makes it difficult to assign jobs to industries. The location not being provided in the job posting, in part due to the increased prevalence of remote working. Burning Glass Technologies classifications of skills are: Specialised skills - covers skills that are specific to an occupation, such as lesson planning for teachers, or Primary Care for nurses. Baseline skills - are sometimes also called soft skills or transferable skills . They include skills that are useful across a variety of occupations, such as research or staff coordination . Computer and programming skills - are IT skills ranging from widely applicable (e.g. Microsoft Word ) to highly specialised (e.g. PERL ).
