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Monthly Regional Economic Briefing from Yorkshire Futures

   

West Yorkshire has many businesses and jobs in:

 

  • Chemicals
  • Food and drink
  • Textiles and clothing
  • Printing and packaging
  • Engineering
  • Distribution including transport
  • Retailing
  • Finance
  • Legal and business services
  • Electronics
  • Call centres
  • Hotels and catering
  • Care including childcare, health and social care

 

Percentage of people employed by industry in West Yorkshire compared with Yorkshire and the Humber, and England

 

 

Graph of percentage of people employed (418kb Adobe Acrobat)

Source: Yorkshire and the Humber local area briefing July 2010 produced by Yorkshire Forward
NB excludes energy and agriculture sectors (data not made available to the public)

Yorkshire’s leading industries

 

Money has been invested in developing technology and skills in seven of our leading industries: advanced engineering and metals, chemicals, food & drink, bioscience, digital industries, healthcare technologies and environmental technologies.

Source: www.yorkshire-forward.com

 

UK industry employment change between 2007 and 2017
Listed in order of largest increase/decrease in the number of people employed

Expected to increase:

Expected to decrease:

  • Computing & related services
  • Other business services
  • Miscellaneous services
  • Hotels & catering
  • Health & social work
  • Retailing distribution nes (not elsewhere specified)
  • Construction
  • Banking & insurance
  • Transport & storage
  • Manufacturing nes & recycling
  • Education; Wholesale distribution nes
  • Distribution relating to motors; Professional services
  • Public administration & defence
  • Textiles & clothing
  • Engineering
  • Agriculture
  • Transport equipment
  • Mining, quarrying & utilities
  • Chemicals & non-metal minerals
  • Metals & metal goods
  • Food, drink & tobacco
  • Wood, paper and publishing
  • Post & telecommunications

 

Source: Working futures 2007-2017, December 2008, UKCES
NB Not elsewhere specified (nes) means it includes all other items in the industry sector that haven't been stated

BUT all industries will be recruiting
because more people are retiring than jobs are being lost.

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