Basildon comes in second place - behind London - for the most applicants per job!
A fascinating piece of research (https://lnkd.in/eQfizxzw) showing the considerable strengths of Basildon as an Inward Investment location and a successful place to do business, but also hinting at the importance of investing in the skills of local residents and encouraging allied investment in inclusive growth, placemaking and community wealth building.
To get a better idea of how competitive the UK job market is right now, Resume.io zeroed in on which towns and cities get the most and least applicants per job
The team filtered jobs to ensure they were posted during the last month and were not remote positions. They pulled a sample from every UK town or city with an above 50,000 population.
For each job, they recorded the number of days the listing had been live, the number of applicants and the industry. This allowed them to rank cities and industries based on the average daily applicants per job listing.
Whilst London has the most competitive job market in the UK, with 11.01 applicants per job per day, Basildon came in second with 5.32 average daily applicants per job - making it a very attractive location for businesses, but the second hardest place to land a job in the country.
This research builds on Lambert Smith Hampton’s recent 2024 Vitality Index, which ranked Basildon as the third most high performing urban connurbation for business and economy.