UK Hiring Heat Map: Live Hiring Trends by Region
Our UK hiring heat map shows where hiring is heating up and where it is cooling down, region by region and job by job. It compares the latest fortnight of new job adverts with the fortnight before, using live data from the Bernoullis job feed, and updates every morning.
Where Is Hiring Heating Up?
Pick a job type to see which parts of the UK are taking a bigger share of new adverts. Orange and red regions are hiring faster than the rest of the country. Blue regions are slowing down. It is a quick way to follow hiring trends in your sector and area.
Comparing new adverts posted 19 Oct to 1 Nov 2026 with 5 Oct to 18 Oct. Updated 6 November 2026.
Each figure is the change in that region's share of new UK adverts for the chosen job type. A positive figure means hiring there is growing faster than in the rest of the UK. Regions with fewer than 25 adverts in either fortnight show a dash.
Where hiring is heating up
- Teaching & Education in East of England +65.9% (269 new adverts)
- Logistics, Warehouse & Driving in Scotland +51% (112 new adverts)
- Admin & Office in West Midlands +48.7% (113 new adverts)
- Management & Operations in East Midlands +35.3% (136 new adverts)
- Manufacturing & Production in East Midlands +32.9% (114 new adverts)
- Logistics, Warehouse & Driving in South West +32.7% (162 new adverts)
- Finance & Accounting in North West +28.1% (411 new adverts)
- Manufacturing & Production in North West +26.8% (99 new adverts)
Where hiring is cooling
- Admin & Office in South West -39.1% (69 new adverts)
- Teaching & Education in Yorkshire and the Humber -35.9% (109 new adverts)
- Teaching & Education in South East -35.5% (311 new adverts)
- Logistics, Warehouse & Driving in West Midlands -33.1% (139 new adverts)
- HR & Recruitment in South West -29.6% (64 new adverts)
- Admin & Office in East of England -27.1% (73 new adverts)
- Trades & Technicians in East of England -22.3% (85 new adverts)
- Sales & Business Development in East of England -21.4% (128 new adverts)
How to read the hiring heat map
Each tile is a UK nation or region. The figure on it is the change in that region’s share of new UK adverts for the job type you picked. For example, “+12%” means the region’s slice of new adverts grew by 12% compared with the fortnight before.
- Hot (+15% or more): hiring is growing much faster here than elsewhere.
- Heating up (+5% to +15%): demand is picking up.
- Steady (-5% to +5%): no real change.
- Cooling (-5% to -15%): demand is easing.
- Cooling fast (-15% or more): a clear slowdown compared with the rest of the UK.
Why we compare shares, not totals
Job feeds grow as new sources are added, and adverts drop out when they close. If we simply counted adverts, almost every region would look like it was booming. By comparing each region’s share of the UK total, and using the largest and steadiest UK-wide job board in our feed for the comparison, the map shows real changes in where employers are hiring.
How employers can use hiring trends
- Plan pay. When a region heats up for your type of role, competition for candidates rises and pay usually follows. Check your offer with our fair pay checker.
- Time your adverts. In a cooling region, more candidates may be looking, so it can be a good time to hire.
- Widen your search. If your own area is hot, consider candidates from nearby cooler regions who might relocate or commute.
- Show pay in your adverts. See how your area compares in our pay transparency league table.
How job seekers can use the heat map
If hiring for your job is heating up near you, you are in a stronger position to ask for more pay or better hours. If it is cooling, it may be worth looking a little further afield. Our commute calculator shows whether a job further away would leave you better off once travel is taken off.
UK hiring heat map FAQs
Where does the data come from?
From public UK job adverts collected every night by the Bernoullis job feed. Adverts are placed in a region from their map location and grouped by job type. The fortnight comparison uses the feed’s largest UK-wide job board so that changes in feed coverage do not look like hiring changes.
Why do some regions show a dash?
We only show a change when there were at least 25 adverts for that job type in the region in both fortnights. Smaller numbers jump around too much to be useful.
How often is it updated?
Every morning. The comparison always uses the last two full weeks (Monday to Sunday) against the two weeks before. We also save a daily snapshot, so longer trends will be added over time.
Can I use the figures?
Yes. You are welcome to quote the UK hiring heat map if you credit Bernoullis Group and link back to this page.
Hiring in a hot market?
Bernoullis Group helps employers hire in engineering, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, IT and logistics across the UK, including in regions where candidates are hard to find. For official labour market figures, see the ONS employment and labour market releases. Contact our team and we will reply within 24 hours.
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